Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.Jeremiah 13:23 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleCan the Ethiopian change his skin - Can a black, at his own pleasure, change the color of his skin? Can the leopard at will change the variety of his spots? These things are natural to them, and they cannot be altered; so sin, and especially your attachment to idolatry, is become a second nature; and we may as well expect the Ethiopian to change his skin, and the leopard his spots, as you to do good, who have been accustomed to do evil. It is a matter of the utmost difficulty to get a sinner, deeply rooted in vicious habits, brought to the knowledge of himself and God. But the expression does not imply that the thing is as impossible in a moral as it is in a natural sense: it only shows that it is extremely difficult, and not to be often expected; and a thousand matters of fact prove the truth of this. But still, what is impossible to man is possible to God. See the note on Jeremiah 13:27.
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Ethiopian.
Jeremiah 2:22,30 For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, said the Lord GOD...
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them...
Jeremiah 6:29,30 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away...
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Proverbs 27:22 Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Isaiah 1:5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Matthew 19:24-28 And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle...
accustomed. Heb. taught.
Jeremiah 9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies...
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