Jeremiah 13:23
Can the people of Cush change their skin color, or a leopard change its spots? 1 If so, then you yourself, although accustomed to wickedness, would be able to do good. 1
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24So I will scatter them like chaff that perishes in the desert wind. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:21When Saul was told this, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
Proverbs 27:22Even if you crush a fool with the pestle—along with the grain— 1 yet his foolishness will not leave him. 1
Isaiah 1:5Why are you still being beaten? Why do you rebel more and more? 1 The whole head is sick, the whole heart is weak. 1
Jeremiah 2:30I have punished your people in vain. They would not accept discipline. 1 Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destructive lion! 1
Jeremiah 6:29The bellows are scorched by the fire that is burning them; the lead is consumed in the flames. 1 The refining continues among them, but it is useless, because the evil is not removed. 1
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is more deceitful than anything else. It is sick; who can understand it? 1
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 →