21
The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify praise.
22
And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
23
Who among you that will give ear to these things? hearken ye to the things which are coming to pass.
24
For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God against whom they sinned? they would not walk in his ways, nor hearken to his law.
25
So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew , neither did they lay to heart.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.