Thy wife] Thus God used to approve the authority of his Prophets by his plagues and judgements against them which were malicious enemies, Jeremiah 28:12. and 29. 21, 25. as this day he doth against them which persecute the Ministers of his Gospel. shall be an harlot] Being by me abandoned to luxury, Hos. 4 13. or being forced therunto by the enemies. thou shalt die in a polluted land] Namely, in Assyria, a land of infidels, farre from the land of Canaan, which was the pledge of the saints communion in life and in death.