Habakkuk 2:7

“Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, etc.] Or, “thy usurers”, or “creditors”f100, as some render it; the Christians, whose money, goods, and substance, they had spoiled them of, but now should be repaid with great usury and gain; these, that is, their princes and emperors, as Constantine and Theodosius, rose up suddenly, and conquered the heathen emperors, and took away their power and authority from them, and their wealth and riches, and gave them to the Christians, what they and those under them had plundered them of: and awake that shall vex thee, or “move thee”f101; the emperor, from the throne of the empire; and other subordinate magistrates from their places of…”

“suddenly--the answer to the question, "How long?" (Hab 2:6). bite--often used of usury; so favoring LEE'S rendering (Hab 2:6). As the Chaldean, like a usurer, oppressed others, so other nations shall, like usurers, take pledges of, that is, spoil, him.”

“Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee? - The destruction of the wicked is ever sudden at last. Such was the flood Luke 17:26-27, the destruction of Sodom, of Pharaoh, of the enemies of God’s people through the Judges, of Sennacherib, Nineveh, Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Such shall the end be Matthew 24:43-44; Matthew 25:13; Luke 17:26-30; Luke 21:34-35; 1Th 5:3; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 16:15. As he by his oppressions had pierced others (it is the word used of the oppression of usury), so should it be done to him. “The Medes and Persians who were before subject to the Babylonian empire, and whose kings were subject to Nebuchudnezzar and…”

“they: Pro 29:1; Isa 13:1-5, Isa 13:16-18, Isa 21:2-9, Isa 41:25, Isa 45:1-3, Isa 46:11, Isa 47:11; Isa 48:14, Isa 48:15; Jer 50:21-32, Jer 51:11, Jer 51:27, Jer 51:28, Jer 51:57; Dan 5:25-31; Nah 1:9, Nah 1:10; Th1 5:3 bite: Ecc 10:8; Jer 8:17 Habakkuk 2:8”