Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.
New American Standard Bible
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can
Who are accustomed to doing evil.
King James Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
International Standard Version
Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you who are trained to do evil will also be able to do good.
A Conservative Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then ye also may do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
American Standard Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Amplified
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to evil and even trained to do it.
Bible in Basic English
Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
Darby Translation
Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Julia Smith Translation
Will the Cushite change his skin and the panther his variegated spots? Ye shall also be able to do good, being taught to do evil.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] you also will be able to do good, [who] are accustomed to doing evil.
Modern King James verseion
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For like as the man of Ethiopia may change his skin, and the cat of the mountains her spots: so may ye that be exercised in evil, do good.
NET Bible
But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?
New Heart English Bible
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
The Emphasized Bible
Can the Ethiopian change, his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Even, ye, may be able to do right, Who are accustomed e to do wrong.
Webster
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
World English Bible
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Youngs Literal Translation
Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Evil doers
Ethiopia » The inhabitants of, black
Interlinear
Haphak
Yakol
Yatab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 13:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message For The King And The Queen Mother
22
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt
that your skirts have been stripped off,
your body exposed.
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.
before the desert wind.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 27:22
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
Isaiah 1:5
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.
Jeremiah 2:22
and use a great amount of soap,
the stain of your sin is still in front of Me.
This is the Lord God’s declaration.
Jeremiah 9:5
no one tells the truth.
They have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they wear themselves out doing wrong.
Matthew 19:24-28
Jeremiah 2:30
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
Jeremiah 5:3
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
blasting the lead with fire.
The refining is completely in vain;
the evil ones are not separated out.
Jeremiah 17:9
and incurable—who can understand it?