Passage
Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts.
Hosea 2:2 (GNV)
Nearby Context
Hosea 2:1 Say vnto your brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,
Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts.
Hosea 2:3 Lest I strippe her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernes, and leaue her like a drie land, and slaie her for thirst.
Hosea 2:4 And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "plead", "mother", "wife", "neither", "husband", "take", and "away". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "plead" and "mother", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Say vnto your brethren Ammi and to..." into verse 3's "Lest I strippe her naked and set...", so "plead" and "mother" belong inside that flow. In Hosea context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "plead" and "mother" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.