10
I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.
8
The watchman of Ephraim with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.
9
They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.
10
I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.
11
Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.
12
For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, my flesh is of them.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.