Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 1:7

7 They are terrible and dreadful : their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

To affect the incredulous Iewes with greater fear, 'tis doubled, they are of all Nations most terrible; in the fierceness wherewith they assault, and cruelty with which they use their Captives.

The Law they observe is their own Will, and what they please you must submit unto, nor complain of wrong done, for as much as they do it.

Their Authority and Superiority for which you must reverence them, the Lordliness of their deportment toward you, or the Right they assume to send you Captives, all is from themselves, without respect to any other Law or Rule whatever? How miserable are you like to be, when enslaved to such a barbarous cruelty, and unbounded pride!

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