Jeremias 25:18
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Jerusalem, et civitatibus Juda, et regibus ejus, et principibus ejus, ut darem eos in solitudinem, et in stuporem, et in sibilum, et in maledictionem, sicut est dies ista :
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 32:4
- τὴν Ἰερουσαλὴμ καὶ τὰς πόλεις Ἰούδα καὶ βασιλεῖς Ἰούδα καὶ ἄρχοντας αὐτοῦ, τοῦ θεῖναι αὐτὰς εἰς ἐρήμωσιν καὶ εἰς ἄβατον καὶ εἰς συριγμόν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֨ם֙ וְאֶת עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וְאֶת מְלָכֶ֖יהָ אֶת שָׂרֶ֑יהָ לָתֵ֨ת אֹתָ֜ם לְחָרְבָּ֧ה לְשַׁמָּ֛ה לִשְׁרֵקָ֥ה וְלִקְלָלָ֖ה כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
As, &c. He probably inserted this (Haydock) after the event, (Vatable) or the country was much distressed even under Sedecias.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Persecution
6. Consider and observe, my hearer, that if God had given a hope to Sodom and to her fellows, He would not have overthrown them with fire and brimstone, the sign of the last day of the world, but would have delivered them over to one of the kingdoms to be chastised. As it is written that when Jeremiah caused the nations and kingdoms to drink the cup of wrath, he said concerning each one of the cities, that after they shall drink the cup, I will turn back the captivity of Elam, of Tyre, of Zidon, of the children of Ammon, and of Moab , and of Edom . Concerning each one of these kingdoms he said: In the last days I well turn back her captivity. Now we see that Tyre was inhabited, and was opulent after she had wandered seventy years , and after she had received the reward of her harlotries and after she had committed fornication with all kingdoms. …