Jeremia 25:18

18 nämlich Jerusalem, den Städten Juda's, ihren Königen und Fürsten, daß sie wüst und zerstört liegen und ein Spott und Fluch sein sollen, wie es denn heutigestages steht;

Jeremia 25:18 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 25:18

[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, ( 1 Peter 4:17 ) ; and even now began; for this very year, in which this prophecy was delivered, Nebuchadnezzar came up and besieged Jerusalem, and carried away some captives, ( Daniel 1:1 ) ; this was the beginning of what afterwards were more fully executed: and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof:
the Kings Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah, with those of their families, the princes of the blood, and their nobles: to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse;
to strip them of their crowns and kingdom, of their wealth, and riches, and honour, and bring them into slavery and bondage; so that they became an astonishment to some, to see the change that was made in them; and were hissed stand cursed by others: (as [it is] this day);
which is added, either because of the certainty of it, or because it began to take, place this very year; though more fully in Jeconiah's time, and still more in Zedekiah's; or rather this clause might be added by Jeremiah after the captivity; or by Baruch, or by Ezra, or whoever collected his prophecies, and put them into one volume, as ( Jeremiah 52:1-34 ) seems to be added by another hand.

Jeremia 25:18 In-Context

16 daß sie trinken, taumeln und toll werden vor dem Schwert, das ich unter sie schicken will.

17 Und ich nahm den Becher von der Hand des HERRN und schenkte allen Völkern, zu denen mich der HERR sandte,

18 nämlich Jerusalem, den Städten Juda's, ihren Königen und Fürsten, daß sie wüst und zerstört liegen und ein Spott und Fluch sein sollen, wie es denn heutigestages steht;

19 auch Pharao, dem König in Ägypten, samt seinen Knechten, seinen Fürsten und seinem ganzen Volk;

20 allen Ländern gegen Abend, allen Königen im Lande Uz, allen Königen in der Philister Lande, samt Askalon, Gaza, Ekron und den übrigen zu Asdod;