Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 52:3

3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .

Here the wicked actings of Zedekiah, and particularly▪ his Rebellion against the King of Babylon who had made him King, as 2 Kings 24.17. and to whom he had given an Oath of Fealty, is ascribed to the wrath of the Lord; God not putting any such wickedness into his heart, but suffering him so to miscarry, having a design to send Iudah into captivity. Princes are often by God suffered to miscarry, for the sins of their People which should oblige us when we think we have cause to complain of the Errors of our Rulers, to consider whether we have not by some sinful courses provoked God, which hath made him leave our Rulers so to miscarry in order to our Ruine and punishment.

It is generally thought that what we have in this Chapter was not penned by the Prophet Ieremiah, who it is not probable would have so largely repeated what he had related before chapter 39. and could not Historically relate, what happened after his time as some things did which are mentioned towards the end of the Chapter, from ver. 31. to the end. They therefore rather think it penned by some or other of those in Babylon, and put in here as a Preface to the Book of Lamentations. What we have in the three first verses is intirely taken out of 2 Kings 24.18, 19, 20. See the Notes there.