John Trapp on Habakkuk 2:8

Verſe 8. Becauſe thou haſt ſpoyled many nations] God loves to retaliate (as hath before been oft obſerved) to ſpoil the ſpoilers, by a remnant of the people, by ſuch as were of no note, and much unlikely to do ſuch exploits. Thus he ſpoiled theſe Babylonians by Cyrus, and his Medes; the Perſians, by Alexander and his Macedonians (whom they ſo ſlighted, that Darius in his proud Embaſſie to him, called him his ſervant, but himſelf the King of kings, and Couſin of the gods.) So the Roman Empire was miſerably rent and torn by the Gothes, Vandals, Hunnes, Lombards, people not before heard of: and the Greek Empire, by Turks, Tartars, Saracens, Scythians, &c. taht it might the better appear, haec non ſine numine fieri, that it was the Lords own doing: who often ſuffers his enemies, like Adoniah's gueſts, to feaſt and frollick in a jocund ſecurity and promiſe of continued proſperity: But at laſt, when they are at the height of their joyes and hopes, he confounds all their deviſes, and layes them open to the ſcorne of the world, and the ſpoyle of the remnant of the people whom they vilified.

becauſe of mens blood] Heb. bloods, every drop whereof had a tongue to cry to God for vengeance ſaying,Rev. 16.6. Pſal. 55.23. Give them blood to drink, for they are worthy, Oh let not bloody and deceitfull men live out half their dayes. That ſouldier can never anſwer it to God that hath not a good cauſe, and ſtriketh not rather as a Juſticer, then as a ſouldier.

and for the violence of the land] Heb. of the earth, though principally of that land of deſires the promiſed land, and the inhabitants thereof whom he that touched, touched the apple of Gods eye, [illegible: 2 letters]hon. that little man in the eye that may not be medled with Zach. 2.8.

of the city] Jeruſalem, called the city by an excellency, and by a better right then ever Rome was. See Lam. 1.1. and Jeremies elegie there over it, when captivated by theſe Chaldees.