Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Ephraim in the verse is the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel in its apostasy. To be like a silly dove without heart is to act foolishly and without sound judgment or understanding. To call to Egypt and go to Assyria is to seek help from those powers by making political alliances with heathen nations.
Those alliances were pursued in hope of regaining lost political power. They were chosen instead of turning from the wrongdoing and practices that had weakened the kingdom and returning to the Lord. Such reliance on foreign powers was unfaithfulness and failure to seek God.
Ephraim in the verse is the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel in its apostasy. To be like a silly dove without heart is to act foolishly and without sound judgment or understanding. To call to Egypt and go to Assyria is to seek help from those powers by making political alliances with heathen nations.
Those alliances were pursued in hope of regaining lost political power. They were chosen instead of turning from the wrongdoing and practices that had weakened the kingdom and returning to the Lord. Such reliance on foreign powers was unfaithfulness and failure to seek God.