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.
13
Ephraim, as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yea, Ephraim to bring out his children to slaughter.
14
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
15
All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princes are disobedient.
16
Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: wherefore even if they should beget , I will kill the desired of their womb.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.