21. What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?
22. And when you say in your heart, “Why has this come upon me?” It is because of your great crookedness that your skirts have been uncovered, your heels made bare.
23. Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good!
24. “So I shall scatter them like stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
25. “This is your lot, your measured portion from Me,” declares יהוה, “because you have forgotten Me, and trust in falsehood.
26. “I shall even draw your skirts over your face, and your shame shall be seen,
27. your adulteries and your neighings, the wickedness of your whoring! I have seen your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Yerushalayim! How long before you would be made clean?”