^25:18I made Jerusalem⁴⁴ and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it.⁴⁵ I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object⁴⁶ of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses.⁴⁷ Such is already becoming the case!⁴⁸

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Footnotes

44 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
45 The words “I made” and “drink it” are not in the text. The text from v. 18 to v. 26 contains a list of the nations that Jeremiah “made drink it.” The words are supplied in the translation here and at the beginning of v. 19 for the sake of clarity. See also the note on v. .
46 Heb “in order to make them a ruin, an object of …” The sentence is broken up and the antecedents are made specific for the sake of clarity and English style.
47 See the study note on for explanation.
48 Heb “as it is today.” This phrase would obviously be more appropriate after all these things had happened as is the case in 44:6, 23 where the verbs referring to these conditions are past. Some see this phrase as a marginal gloss added after the tragedies of 597 b.c. or 586 b.c. However, it may refer here to the beginning stages where Judah has already suffered the loss of Josiah, of its freedom, of some of its temple treasures, and of some of its leaders (Dan 1:1–3. The different date for Jehoiakim there is due to the different method of counting the king’s first year; the third year there is the same as the fourth year in 25:1).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse—as they are today;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing—as it is today;

NLTNew Living Translation

I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

KJV 1900King James Version

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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