jeremiah 25:18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

jeremiah 25:18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings [and] its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

18. Jerusalem--put first: for "judgment begins at the house of God"; they being most guilty whose religious privileges are greatest (1Pe 4:17).
kings--Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah.
as it is this day--The accomplishment of the curse had already begun under Jehoiakim. This clause, however, may have been inserted by Jeremiah at his final revision of his prophecies in Egypt.

jeremiah 25:18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings [and] its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

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