Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and be glad, O Bat Edom, 1 that dwellest in Eretz Utz; 1 the kos (cup) also shall pass unto thee; 1 thou shalt be drunk, and shalt be stripped naked. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

In Context

20The Moshiach of Hashem, who was our very life, 1 was taken in their traps, 1 of whom we said: Under his shadow [of protection] 1 we shall live among the Goyim. 1

22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O Bat Tziyon; 1 He will no more prolong your Golus; 1 He will visit thine iniquity, O Bat Edom; 1 He will expose thy sins.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:28The Bnei Dishan are these: Utz, and Aran.

Job 1:1There was an ish in Eretz Utz, shmo Iyov; and that ish was blameless and yashar, and yire Elohim, and shunned evil.

Psalms 137:7Remember, Hashem, the Bnei Edom 1 in the Yom Yerushalayim; 1 who said, Raze it, raze it, 1 even to the yesod (foundation) thereof. 1

Isaiah 34:1Come near, ye Goyim, to hear; 1 and pay heed, ye peoples; 1 let ha'aretz hear, and all that is therein; 1 the tevel (world), and all things that come forth of it. 1

Jeremiah 25:15For thus saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel unto me: Take this kos hayayin haChemah (wine cup of wrath) + 25:15 See Lk 22:42 from My yad, and cause kol HaGoyim, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

Jeremiah 49:12For thus saith Hashem: Hinei, they + 49:12 i.e., the innocent whose mishpat was not to drink of the Kos have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:14-21

Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided… Read the whole commentary →

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