John Trapp on Habakkuk 1:9

Ver. 9. They ſhall come all for violence] that by force and violence they may carry all before them. Fit via vi, Cedit viribus aequum. They are ſet upon't and will have it ſo.

their faces ſhall ſup up as the Eaſt-wind] that ventus urens & exiccans, they ſhall blaſt all they look upon: Euroclydon-like, they ſhall overturn all Act. 27.14.Lib. 2. c. 28. Navigantium peſtem the Mariners miſery Pliny calleth this wind, for the hurt it doeth by ſea. Some read it, Their faces ſhall look towards the Eaſt, viz. towards Babylon, whither they carry the booty they get.

and they ſhall gather the captivity as the ſand] So many ſhall be their captives, and ſo little accounted of, as the duſt or ſand they tread upon. Thus the Turks carry out of Hungary and other Chriſtian countries neer unto them, innumerable booties and captives, 15000. at a time. And ſo the Spaniards, when they had taken the Iſland Hiſpaniola in the Indies, within a few moneths they rid it cleane of the inhabitants and natives, whileſt they gathered unto themſelves captives and ſlaves.