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The Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 13, Verse 24

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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
King James Version
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
American Standard Version
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.
New English Translation
“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
World English Bible
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
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This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
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Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
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Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
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Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
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And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no grass.
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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.