Jeremiah 13:21-23

Common English Bible

²¹ What will you say when he appoints someone as head over you:
    your defenders, your trusted allies?^[a]
Won’t pain grip you
    like that of a woman in labor?
²² And when you ask yourself,
    Why have all these things happened to me?
        it is because of your many sins
        that you have been stripped and violated.
²³ Can a Cushite change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    when doing evil comes so naturally.