Jeremiah 16:10

“And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, etc.] Or, “all these things”f338; which he was forbid to do; as marrying and having children, going into the house of mourning or feasting, with the reasons of all, because of the calamities coming upon them: and they shall say unto thee, wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? as if they were quite innocent, and were not conscious of anything they had done deserving such punishment, especially so great as this was threatened to be inflicted on them; as their dying grievous deaths, parents and children, great and small, and be unlamented, and unburied: or “what is our iniquity?” or “what…”

“(Deu 29:24; Kg1 9:8-9).”

“16:10 The Lord told Jeremiah to expect questions from the people that would express their self-righteousness and their belief that the Lord should never harm them.”

“Wherefore: Jer 2:35, Jer 5:19, Jer 13:22, Jer 22:8, Jer 22:9; Deu 29:24, Deu 29:25; Kg1 9:8, Kg1 9:9; Hos 12:8 Jeremiah 16:11”

“"And when thou showest this people all these things, and they say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jahveh pronounced all this great evil against us, and what is our transgression, and what our sin that we have committed against Jahveh our God? Jer 16:11. Then say thou to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jahveh, and have walked after other gods, and served them, and worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and not kept my law; Jer 16:12. And ye did yet worse than your fathers; and behold, ye walk each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, hearkening not unto me. Jer 16:13. Therefore I cast you out of this land into the land which he know not, neither ye nor your fathers, and…”