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:
7
and his people cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.