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16 for those who led this people led them astray,
    and those who were led by them were left in confusion.(A)

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16 Those who guide(A) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.(B)

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33 The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the animals of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.

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33 Then the carcasses(A) of this people will become food(B) for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(C)

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At that time, says the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs,(A)

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“‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones(A) of the people of Jerusalem will be removed(B) from their graves.

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and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.(A)

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They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served(A) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.(B) They will not be gathered up or buried,(C) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(D)

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22 And if you say in your heart,
    “Why have these things come upon me?”
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that your skirts are lifted up
    and you are violated.(A)
23 Can Cushites change their skin
    or leopards their spots?
Then also you can do good,
    who are accustomed to do evil.(B)
24 I will scatter you[a] like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.(C)
25 This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord,
because you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.24 Gk mss: Heb them

22 And if you ask yourself,
    “Why has this happened to me?”(A)
it is because of your many sins(B)
    that your skirts have been torn off(C)
    and your body mistreated.(D)
23 Can an Ethiopian[a] change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    who are accustomed to doing evil.(E)

24 “I will scatter you like chaff(F)
    driven by the desert wind.(G)
25 This is your lot,
    the portion(H) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten(I) me
    and trusted in false gods.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:23 Hebrew Cushite (probably a person from the upper Nile region)