Hosea 8:9

For whom I have set the desert plain as a home And the salt land as his dwelling place?

“Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from all around for your harlotries.

“Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

Then Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his sore, So Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb. But he is unable to heal you Or to cure you of your sore.

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without a heart of wisdom; They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.