The prophet is commanded to abstain from marriage, from mourning, or festival assemblies; hereby representing to them their approaching misery, Jer_16:1-9. Their sins which caused it, Jer_16:10-13. Their strange deliverance from Babylon, Jer_16:14,15. After that their iniquity is recompensed, Jer_16:16-18. The prophet’s comfort in the calling of the Gentiles, Jer_16:19-21.