Jeremiah 13:23 “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither a…”

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

World English Bible

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

American Standard Version

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Geneva Bible 1599

Can the blacke More change his skin? or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do euill.

Darby Translation

Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Young's Literal Translation

Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Bible in Basic English

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

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Cross references

“Ethiopian”

Jeremiah 2:22 Matthew 19:24–28 Jeremiah 17:9 Jeremiah 2:30 Jeremiah 5:3 Proverbs 27:22

Jeremiah 2:22 · BSB

Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

Matthew 19:24–28 · BSB

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Jeremiah 17:9 · BSB

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 2:30 · BSB

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Proverbs 27:22 · BSB

Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

“accustomed”

Jeremiah 9:5

Jeremiah 9:5 · BSB

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

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