Jeremiah 16:2
16:2 Thou shalt not take {a} thee a wife, neither shalt thou
     have sons nor daughters in this place.

     (a) Meaning that the affliction would be so horrible in
         Jerusalem that a wife and children would only increase
         his sorrow.

Jeremiah 16:5
16:5 For thus saith the LORD, {b} Enter not into the house of
     mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
     taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD,
     [even] lovingkindness and mercies.

     (b) Signifying that the affliction would be so great that
         one would not have leisure to comfort another.

Jeremiah 16:6
16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
     shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them,
     {c} nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

     (c) That is, should not tear their clothes in sign of
         mourning.

Jeremiah 16:7
16:7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning,
     to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them
     the {d} cup of consolation to drink for their father or for
     their mother.

     (d) For in these great extremities all consolation and
         comfort will be in vain.

Jeremiah 16:10
16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this
      people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why
      hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us?
      or what [is] {e} our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that
      we have committed against the LORD our God?

      (e) Because the wicked are always rebellious and conceal
          their own sins and murmur against God's judgments, as
          though he had no just cause to punish them, he shows
          him what to answer.

Jeremiah 16:15
16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought the children of Israel
      from the land of the north, and {f} from all the lands
      where he had driven them: and I will bring them again into
      their land that I gave to their fathers.

      (f) Signifying that the blessing of their deliverance out
          of Babylon would be so great that it would abolish the
          remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt: but he
          has here chiefly respect to the spiritual deliverance
          under Christ.

Jeremiah 16:16
16:16 Behold, I will send for many {g} fishermen, saith the
      LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send
      for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every
      mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of
      the rocks.

      (g) By the fishers and hunters are meant the Babylonians
          and Chaldeans who would destroy them in such sort,
          that if they escaped the one, the other would take
          them.

Jeremiah 16:18
16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
      double; because they have defiled my land, they have
      filled my inheritance with the {h} carcases of their
      detestable and abominable things.

      (h) That is, their sons and daughters, who they offered to
          Molech.

Jeremiah 16:19
16:19 O LORD, my {i} strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in
      the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee
      from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our
      fathers have inherited {k} lies, vanity, and [things] in
      which [there is] no profit.

      (i) He wonders at the great mercy of God in this
          deliverance which will not only extend to the Jews but
          also to the Gentiles.
      (k) Our fathers were most vile idolaters therefore it
          comes only of God's mercy that he performs his promise
          and has not utterly cast us off.

Jeremiah 16:21
16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once {l} cause them to
      know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and
      they shall know that my name [is] JEHOVAH.

      (l) They will once again feel my power and mercy for their
          deliverance that they may learn to worship me.