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;

Jerusalem - put first: for "judgment begins at the house of God;" they being most guilty whose religious privileges are greatest ().

The kings thereof - Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah.

As it is this day - the accomplishment of the curse has already begun under Jehoiakim. This clause, however, may have been inserted by Jeremiah at his final revision of his prophecies in Egypt.