Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
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Gill's Exposition
This is thy lot,.... Meaning not the king's, or the queen's only, but the lot of the whole Jewish state:
the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; which were divided and distributed, and…
Barnes' Notes
This verse answers the question, May not Judah avert this calamity by repentance? No: because her sins are too inveterate. By the Ethiopian (Hebrew: Cushite) is meant not the Cushite of Arabia but of…
Here is, I. Ruin threatened as before, that the Jews shall go into captivity, and fall under all the miseries of beggary and bondage, shall be stripped of their clothes, their skirts discovered for…
Cambridge Bible
The v. need not mean that Judah's sin was innate (see on Jer 6:7), but that habits of evil preclude a return to righteousness.
the Ethiopian Through the Jews" intercourse with Egypt the Ethiopians…
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