John Trapp on Habakkuk 2:16

Verſe 16. Thou art filled with ſhame for glory] Or, more with ſhame then with glory. That is thou ſhalt be filled ſhortly with ignominy for that glory wherein thou preſently prideſt thy ſelfe: thy drunkeneſſe ſhall redound to thine utter diſgrace, as it was to Darius, Alexander, Autoninus, Bonoſus, Trajan (a good Emperor otherwiſe, but a drunkard, and a pederaſt, as Dio Caſſius reporteth him.) Yea Cato, that moſt ſevere cenſurer of other mens manners; to whom it was ſometime objected (how deſervedly I know not) quod nocturnis potationibus indulgeret, that by night he would drink ſoundly. This is a blurre to him, if true, and confutes that elogium given him by Paterculus, that he was omnibus humanis vitiis immunis, free from all vices, and as like vertue her ſelfe as might be. In Scripture, the drunkards ſtile begins in lawleſneſſe, proceeds in unprofitableneſſe, ends in miſery; and all ſh[illegible: 1 letter]t up in that denomination of his pedigree, A ſonne of Belial.

Drink thou alſo] Sith thou art ſo able at it (ſith thou haſt ſo well deſerved that infamous Epitaph of a certain drunkard.

Heus, hic ſitus eſt Offellius Buratius Bibulus, Qui dum vixit, aut bibit aut minxit. abi praeceps)Jo[illegible: 1 letter]nſi. de Natur. conſtant.

Drink another while of the cup of ſhame and ſorrow: take thy part of all manner of miſeries Jer. 25.26. Obad. 16. Snares, fire and brimſtone, and an horrible tempoſt ſhall one day be the portion of thy cup: For the righteous Lord loveth righteouſneſſe Pſal. 11.6.7. Yea he loveth to retaliate and will therefore make theſe drunkards drink alſo: and thoſe that made others drunk that they might look on their nakedneſſe, to lie with their fore-skins uncovered to their perpetual reproach. Uncircumciſion was a ſhameful ſpectacle indeed among that people.

The cup of the Lords right hand ſhall be turned to thee] Heb. turned about, or ſhall turn it ſelſe, quia rerum omnium viciſſitudo: thy turn is now come to take off the dregs of Gods cup of calamity Ier. 25.15. that hath eternity to the bottome.

And ſhamefull ſpewing ſhall be on thy glory] Kikalon a compound word, the vomit. of ignominy; a fit puniſhment for filthy drunkards, who break their heads as ſwine do their bellies, over-charge their ſtomacks as dogges do their gorges, and then diſgorge themſelves in a ſhamefull ſort, as Antonius did at Narbon amidſt his gueſts at a feaſt: and as Eccius, Luthers great adverſary, whom he merrily called Ieccius from his caſting: as Tiberius was nicknamed Biberius.

ſhall be on thy glory] The Hebrew word for glory, properly ſignifieth weightineſſe: as the word twice here uſed for ſhame, ſignifieth lightneſſe: an elegant oppoſition, ſhewing that whatſoever the Babylonians gloried in, and held themſelves honourable for, ſhould be lightly accounted of, and lie buried in the ſheet of ſhame, as in a dung-hill of filthy vomit.