Jeremiah 13:23
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If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

Ethiopian.

Jeremiah 2:22,30 Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God. . . .

Jeremiah 5:3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 6:29,30 The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed. . . .

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

Isaiah 1:5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Matthew 19:24-28 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

accustomed.

Jeremiah 9:5 And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.

Context
Captivity Threatened
22And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. 23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.24And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

Isaiah 1:5
For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:5
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.

Lexicon
Can the Ethiopian
כּוּשִׁי֙ (kū·šî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3569: Cushite -- descendant of Cush

change
הֲיַהֲפֹ֤ךְ (hă·ya·hă·p̄ōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

his skin,
עוֹר֔וֹ (‘ō·w·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5785: Skin, hide, leather

or the leopard
וְנָמֵ֖ר (wə·nā·mêr)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5246: A leopard

his spots?
חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָ֑יו (ḥă·ḇar·bu·rō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2272: A streak, as on the tiger

Neither
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

are you
אַתֶּם֙ (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

able
תּוּכְל֣וּ (tū·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3201: To be able, have power

to do good—
לְהֵיטִ֔יב (lə·hê·ṭîḇ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

you who are accustomed
לִמֻּדֵ֖י (lim·mu·ḏê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3928: Instructed

to doing evil.
הָרֵֽעַ׃ (hā·rê·a‘)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad


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

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

If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.

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

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

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

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

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