Hosea 7:1-161 And the injustice of Ephraim will be uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, because they worked falsely. And a thief will enter toward him, a robber stripping him on his way, 2 in order that they may sing together as singing in their heart. All their wickedness I remembered. Now their counsels have encircled them; they have come opposite my face. 3 By their wicked acts they cheered kings, and rulers with their lies. 4 All are committing adultery, like an oven being lit for the cooking of the burning from the flame from mixing of dough until it is leavened. 5 As for the days of your kings —the rulers began to be angry from wine; he stretched out his hand with plagues. 6 Because their hearts were lit up like an oven when they broke in pieces. Ephraim was sated the whole night of sleep. In the morning they were born, he was lit up like a light of fire. 7 All were warm like an oven, and they ate their judges. All their kings fell. There was not one among them who was calling to me. 8 Ephraim was mingling with his peoples. Ephraim was a cake baked in the ashes that was not turned over. 9 Foreigners ate his strength, but he has not learned. And gray hairs flourished for him, and he did not know it. 10 And the pride of Israel will be made low to his face, yet they did not return to the Lord, their God, and they did not seek him in all these things. 11 And Ephraim was like a silly pigeon, not having a heart. Egypt used to be called upon, and they went to Assyria. 12 Whenever they go, I will throw my net upon them. As the birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will rear them in the sound of their affliction. 13 Woe to them, because they have turned away from me. They are wretched, because they have acted impiously toward me. But I ransomed them, but they have spoken lies against me. 14 And their hearts did not cry to me; rather, they howled in their beds. They used to gash themselves for corn and wine. 15 They were taught by me, and I strengthened their arms, and they devised evils against me. 16 They turned back to nothing. They became like a bent bow. Their rulers will fall by the sword on account of a lack of control over their tongue. This will be the contempt of them in the land of Egypt.”
Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 7.