20 Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock given to you, Your beautiful sheep?
21 What will you say, when He sets up the allies you cultivated for yourself, over you as head? Will not labor pains seize you, like a woman in travail?
22 Suppose you say in your heart, “Why did these things happen to me?” Because of your great iniquity, your skirts are uncovered and your heels suffer violence.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Or the leopard his spots? So, could you do good, that are accustomed to doing evil?
24 “Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw in the desert wind.
25 This is your lot, the portion measured for you from Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “For you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore I will also uncover your skirts over your face, expose your shame.