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18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah [being most guilty because their privileges were greatest], its kings and princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is to this day;(A)

19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people,

20 And all the mixed foreign population; all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines and [their cities of] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

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18 Jerusalem(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin(B) and an object of horror and scorn,(C) a curse[a](D)—as they are today;(E) 19 Pharaoh king(F) of Egypt,(G) his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20 and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;(H) all the kings of the Philistines(I) (those of Ashkelon,(J) Gaza,(K) Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed