They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.
Now doves are silly. They make their nest in the most stupid places. A dove is really stupid. Watch them in their nest building, they don't really make a neat nest at all and they're not really careful where they make their nest. They oftentimes will make their nest even within an easy reach. And you can remove the eggs out of a dove's nest and he'll continue to sit on the thing. They're just silly. I remember as a kid we used to go out with slingshots and you just miss the dove, you know, the rock just goes shooting passed him and just barely miss him and he wouldn't fly; he wouldn't move. He'd just, you know, look around. I used to say, "You dumb thing. I'm not gonna miss you the next shot." But they just don't seem to have much sense. They surely don't show very good judgment. And so God likens Ephraim to a silly dove flying off to Assyria and then flying down to Egypt, looking again to the help of man rather than turning to God.God said,