4
When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.
2
As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.
3
Yet I bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.
4
When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.
5
Ephraim dwelt in Egypt; and the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.
6
And in his cities he prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased with his hands: and they shall eat of their own devices:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.