Hosea 2:2

Plead with your mother, plead The repetition of the appeal shews its urgency. -Do not murmur against me", Jehovah seems to say, -plead your cause against your own mother: Israel is the author of her own calamities."

for she is not my wife A parenthetical explanation of the expression -your mother". Adultery has destroyed the relation of the wife to the husband, but not of the mother to the children. Comp. Isaiah 50:1.

her whoredoms out of her sight Rather, from her face, the index of obstinacy (comp. Jeremiah 3:3), as the breasts of shamelessness.