Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 25:18

"[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;" — Jeremiah 25:18 (ASV)

As it is this day. —The words are not in the Septuagint, and may probably have been added after the prediction had received its fulfilment in the final capture of Jerusalem and the desolation of the country. Here, as before in Jeremiah 25:13, we trace the hand of a transcriber. It will be noted that the prophet begins with the judgment about to fall on his own people, and then passes on from the house of God (1 Peter 4:17) to those that are without.