John Trapp on Habakkuk 2:7

Verſe 7. Shall they not riſe up ſuddenly that ſhall bite thee?] Rent and tear thee, as hunting-dogs do the beaſt they purſue. See Eſay 13.14, 21. Jer. 58. and 51. The interrogation here uſed, importeth both the certainty of the thing, and their ſecurity: as if no ſuch thing could poſſibly befall them: Suddenly therefore, ſaith the Prophet, ſhalt thou be ſurprized, and ſpoyled by the Perſians, when thy city Babylon is held impregnable, and boaſteth of proviſion enough laid in for twenty years ſiege. Security is the certain Uſher of deſtruction; as we ſee in Benhadads army, and thoſe Midianites, Judg. 7. and the Amalekites, 1 Sam. 30. and Pompeyes marching againſt Caeſar; and the French at the battle of Agincourt: ſo confident they were of a victory, that they ſent to our King Henry 5.Speed. 795. who was then in the field againſt them, and gat the day, to know what ranſom hee would give, &c.