Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Habakkuk 2:7
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Habakkuk2:7
7. suddenly--the answer to the question, "How long?" (Ha 2:6).
bite--often used of usury; so favoring Lee's rendering (Ha 2:6). As the Chaldean, like a usurer, oppressed others, so other nations shall, like usurers, take pledges of, that is, spoil, him.
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