Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 16:10

10 ¶ And it shall come to pass when thou shalt shew this people all these words , and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God ?

Or all these things, when thou shalt be observed by this people to refuse Marriage, and to go to the houses of Mourners, according to the Custom, to eat, or to drink with mourners, to make them to forget their sorrows, or to go into the house of feasting for jollity and mirth, and they shall ask the reason of thy singularity in this behaviour, and thou shalt give them the reason of it, according as I have instructed thee, and they

shall pretend to be at a loss, to know the reason why God is so severe against them, for what sin or iniquity it is, thinking perhaps that Manasses or Iehojachim's commanding them to worship Idols would excuse them, and onely leave their Superiours guilty, for otherwise, while there was such plain Idolatry amongst them, they could not be ingorant of cause sufficient that God had, considering the multiplied threats in the Law.

Marginal references: chap. 5.19. & 13.22.