However they did not hearken, but they did according to their former manner.
Jeremiah 13:23 - King James 2000 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to doing evil. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also can you do good who are accustomed and taught [even trained] to do evil. American Standard Version (1901) Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Common English Bible Can a Cushite change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good when doing evil comes so naturally. Catholic Public Domain Version If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If the Ethiopian can change his skin or the leopard his spots: you may also do well when you have learned evil. |
However they did not hearken, but they did according to their former manner.
Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.
O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
And they will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.