4
I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.
5
Hear the words of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; speak ye, our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear their joy; but they shall be ashamed.
6
A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to adversaries.
7
Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped and brought forth a male.
8
Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.