Hosea 2:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bible Comments

Plead with your (b) mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries (c) from between her breasts;

(b) God shows that the fault was not in him, that he forsook them, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries; (Isaiah 50:1).

(c) Meaning that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it; (Ezekiel 16:25).

Hosea 2:2

2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;