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Hosea 2:2

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

AD 444
She has not preserved the genuineness of love toward me, but rather she denied the intimacy and underestimated the purity of spiritual communion with me. Nor was she willing to bring forth the fruits of my will.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Your mother: the synagogue. (Calmet) He addresses Juda, (ver. 11, 15.) or all God's people, chap. i. 11. This vineyard yields no good fruit, Isaias v. Idolatry prevails, Ezechiel xvi. 5., and xxiii. 3.

Richard Challoner

AD 1781
Your mother: The synagogue.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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