Jeremiah 15 - 17

God is determined to bring judgment to the nation of Judah.  Nothing will dissuade Him from punishing his rebellious people.  However, He promises Jeremiah that those who return to Him will not suffer as greatly as those who refuse to repent.  As a sign of God's displeasure with the nation, He commands Jeremiah to not marry or attend funerals or weddings.  God was going to take away all the reasons for rejoicing; and Jeremiah's absence at these events would speak to that fact.  There would be those who trusted their own conscience's message of peace; but God states that the heart of man is desperately wicked and its thoughts unknowable by humankind.  God repeatedly calls the nation to a restoration of its former ways, a reinstitution of the law He had given them.  But the nation would not listen or obey.