Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 25:18

18 To wit Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, and astonishment, an hissing and a curse, as it is this day .

Judgment usually beginneth at the House of God, 1 Pet. 4.17. God hath more known them and done them more good then other people, therefore their sins are higher provocations, and they are less excusable. By the Kings here mentioned are to be understood Iehojakim, Iehojakin and Zedekiah, these Princes with their People, God threatens to punish to astonishment, and so as men should mock at them, and curse them, which expressions we have before met with in the same cause. But here ariseth a doubt how the Prophet saith (as it is this day) whereas this prophesie ver. 1. was in the fourth year of Iehojakim, but Ierusalem was not made such a desolation till the eleventh year of Zedekiah which was eighteen years after. Some think that though the thing were yet to come, yet the Prophet speaketh of it as past because of the certainty of it, which is but what is ordinary in the Prophetical Writings. Others think that these words were added after the Captivity of Ieremiah, writing over his former prophesies. Others from these words judge that this part of the chapter, was a prophesie at some other time following what was in the beginning of this chapter. Others think that he adds these words because the carrying into Captivity was at this time begun, though not compleated until the 11th. year of Zedekiah.