Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
24Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away before the wind of the wilderness.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:21And when it was told to Saul, he sent other messengers, and these prophesied likewise. And Saul sent again messengers the third time, and these also prophesied.
Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldst pound the fool in a mortar, in the midst of grains of wheat with a pestle: still would his folly not depart from him.
Isaiah 1:5Why will ye be stricken yet more? [that] ye increase the revolt? every head is sick, and every heart is faint.
Jeremiah 2:30To no purpose have I smitten your children; correction they accepted not: your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 6:29The bellows are burnt, by the fire the lead is consumed: in vain the melter refineth; for the wicked are not separated away.
Jeremiah 17:9Deceitful is the heart above all things, and sick: who can know it?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:23-27
Punishment Predicted; Causes of Jerusalem's Ruin. ( b. c. 606.) 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord ;… Read the whole commentary →