Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband; And let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;
There can be, therefore, very little if any doubt whatever that God divorced Israel and that the decree was final and irrevocable.  Several figures are used in the Bible to convey the truth of God's rejecting the old Israel as his "chosen people," a status which was taken away from them and bestowed upon the family of God "in Christ."  One of these was mentioned by Paul in  Romans 7:1ff, in which it was pointed out that God Himself was dead "to Israel" in the person of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.  Thus, any claim of the old Israel as the bride of Jehovah is as worthless as the claim of a woman who has been divorced for adultery against a husband who has already died.