“And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.”
The exposure of shame: 'Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.' This verse uses a rhetorical question (unchangeable nature) to suggest that the people, 'accustomed to doing evil,' cannot change. The implication is that their nature has become fixed in wickedness. Theologically, this verse indicates a hopelessness rooted in the people's habitual evil.
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