21. What will you say when He punishes you?For you have taught themTo be chieftains, to be head over you.Will not pangs seize you,Like a woman in labor?
22. And if you say in your heart,“Why have these things come upon me?”For the greatness of your iniquityYour skirts have been uncovered,Your heels made bare.
23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.
24. “Therefore I will scatter them like stubbleThat passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
25. This is your lot,The portion of your measures from Me,” says the Lord,“Because you have forgotten MeAnd trusted in falsehood.
26. Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face,That your shame may appear.
27. I have seen your adulteriesAnd your lustful neighings,The lewdness of your harlotry,Your abominations on the hills in the fields.Woe to you, O Jerusalem!Will you still not be made clean?”