Pensamento Judaico sobre Números 24:24

It is apparent from all this that all the days that the Blessed One prospered us, He trod down the peoples of Edom beneath us; and when we undermined our Tower of Strength, Edom girded its loins in might. For our sages have already made it clear to us that our present exile is the exile of Edom. For though Rome "the cutter" has been our undoing and it is considered part of Greece (Onkelos translating [Numbers 24:24] "And tzim from Kittim" — "and troops will be summoned from Rome" and Kittim is one of the sons of Yavan (Greece) (see Genesis 10:4]), still, its kings were from Edom, as was much of its population, Onkelos translating (Lamentations 4:22): "Your iniquity is remembered, daughter of Edom," as "Your sin is visited upon you, Rome, you wicked one, built up in Italy and filled with people from the children of Edom."