plead] Reprove the body of your Nation openly, 1 Timothy 5:20.
for she is not my wife] She doth not keep her faith which she hath promised me: and I have already good cause to put her away, which I forbeare to do through my great patience. Others say, God sheweth that the fault was not in him, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries, that he forsook them, Jeremiah 50:1.
therefore put away her whoredomes] Ezekiel 16:25. Let he dispose her selfe to true chastitie, and spirituall puritie, using no more lascivious baites, and practises, to draw profane nations on to trade with them in idolatrie. See Jeremiah 2:33. and Jeremiah 4:30.