Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 2:17

17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee l, and the spoil of beasts , which made them afraid, because of [illegible: 1 word] blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city and of all that dwell therein.

This is added to all the rest, that Gods people might know this was the times of recompences for Sion, that the violence by Babylon done to Iudaea and its inhabitants, should be avenged and no longer defer'd, but now should overwhelm Babylon, in which should be made as great devastations as ever she made in the fruitful, and beautiful mountain Lebanon supposed in Deut. 3.25. to express the Land of Canaan, or else by Lebanon may be meant the Temple, and House of the Sanctuary (as the Chaldee paraphrast) because it was built of the Cedars of Lebanon.

Babylon.

Such spoil as by hunters is made among wild Beasts, when they endeavour to destroy the whole kind of them, such havock, and by all the wayes and methods that art, and subtle[illegible: 1 letter]y can invent to extirpate them, such wastes shalt thou suffer: for thou art to be destroyed. Or else thus, such desolations shall thine Enemies make in thee as wild, ravenous, and unsatiable Beasts make where they prevail, they shall tear and devour all they seise, and seise all that peep abroad, and this shall make all men afraid continually.

Vid. ver. 8. l[illegible: 1 letter]t. a. b c. d. e.