Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 1:15

15 They take up all of them with the angle : they catch them in their net , and gather them in their drag ; therefore they rejoice and are glad .

Either more generally oppressors every where, or else particularly the Chaldeans.

Draw them out slily, and craftily when they are taken by his bait.

Without distinction, all alike good or bad.

It may refer to the delight these oppressors took in these courses, or to the more private way of destroying.

Another method of the Chaldean Rapine, like catching of Fish, not singly and one by one but destroying many together.

As if they could never have enough, these Chaldeans do, fisher-like, drive men into their nets and snares.

This is a third way of destroying Fish. The Chaldeans would use all wayes to devour the Iewes.

The greedy and cruel Chaldeans.

Both in their own gain, and in the Iews Ruine.

'Tis doubled to shew the certainty of the thing, and probably to intimate the double joy they took in their prosperous oppression.

Marginal references: Amos 4.2.; Or, flat-net.