7
The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded.
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.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.