21. What will you say when rulers are appointed over you,those you taught to be allies?Will not pains seize youlike those of a woman giving birth?
22. If you say to yourself:“Why have these things happened to me?”For your great guilt your skirts are stripped awayand you are violated.
23. Can Ethiopians change their skin,leopards their spots?As easily would you be able to do good,accustomed to evil as you are.
24. I will scatter them like chaff that flieson the desert wind.
25. This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you—oracle of the Lord.Because you have forgotten me,and trusted in deception,
26. I now will strip away your skirts,so that your shame is visible.
27. Your adulteries, your neighings,your shameless prostitutions:On the hills, in the fieldsI see your detestable crimes.Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will it bebefore you are clean?