Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 4:22

22 ¶ The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion , he will no more carry thee into captivity : he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will discover thy sins .

O Iudaea thy punishment is past, but the punishment of Edom is yet to come. The Jews were to abide many years in captivity, but they were now suffering their last punishment from the Chaldeans, they were only for some years to continue in that state of Captives.

After thy term of Captivity shall be expired, thou shalt not for thy old sins suffer any more punishment, not that their present Captivity should be all their punishment in case they went on in sinful courses, (as they did in rejecting Christ, and causing him to be Crucified) for for those new wickednesses after many years they were destroyed by the Romans. But the Prophet hints that there should at present, or for their past sins no more wrath be poured out upon them, nor would God ever detain them in this Captivity.

But for the Edomites their punishment was yet wholly to come, God was yet beginning to punish them, and would do it, discovering their sins. As the pardon of sin is in Scripture set out under the notion of covering it, Psal. 32.1. so the punishment of sin may be expressed by discovering it, Iob 20, 27. but the learned Author of the English Annotations, conceiveth the Hebrew may be better read, He will discover thee for thy sins, because of the particle [non-Latin text not transcribed] set before thy sins (though our Translation taketh no notice of it.) He will discover upon thy sins, and so it answereth, Ier. 49.10. (as he conceiveth) I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself.

Marginal references: Isa. 40.2.; Or, thine iniquity.; Or, carry thee captive for thy sins.