Holy Scripture
Lamentations 4:21
A church father on this verse
“Here those isolated, and principally the Edomites, are threatened first. Then second, the Jews are comforted. As to the first (the Edomites), joy is excluded. As said: "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom." That is, be laughingly. As 2 Samuel (2 Kings) 1:20 records: "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the stre…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, That dwellest in the land: Yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: Thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.
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In context
19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, They flew on the mountains, In the wilderness they laid wait for us.
20The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, Was taken in their destructive snares, Of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.
— Lamentations 4:21 —
22O daughter of Zion, thine iniquity has come to an end; He shall no more carry thee captive: He has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; He has discovered thy sins.