World English Bible
Jeremiah 13:22
“If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 13
20
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
21
What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?
22
If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
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Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
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Warnings of Jerusalem’s fall and promises of a new covenant.
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