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;
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Gill's Exposition
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah,.... Which are mentioned first, because God's judgments began with them, as they usually do with the house of God, Pe1 4:17; and even now began; for this…
Barnes' Notes
As it is this day - Words omitted by the Septuagint, and probably added by Jeremiah after the murder of Gedaliah had completed the ruin of the land.
Under the similitude of a cup going round, which all the company must drink of, is here represented the universal desolation that was now coming upon that part of the world which Nebuchadrezzar, who…
Cambridge Bible
The list which follows is one which has evidently been expanded. The LXX omit "all the kings of the land of Uz" (Jer 25:25), "all the kings of Arabia" [or (see note there) "all the kings of the…
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