John Trapp on Habakkuk 3:7

Verſe 7. I ſaw the Tents of Cuſhan) King of Meſopotamia, who tyrannized over Iſrael eight years, after Joſhua's death: God ſelling his people to him for naught, and not increaſing his wealth by their price, Pſal. 44.12. Judg. 3.8. But delivering them in the end by that valiant Othniel, who brought the tents of Cuſhan under affliction or vanity. Some render it propter iniquitatem, becauſe of iniquity, and ſet this ſenſe upon it: It was for ſinne that God ſold his people into the hands of Cuſhan Riskathaijm, and yet afterwards ſent them a Saviour: why then ſhould they now deſpair of a ſeaſonable return out of captivity, though by their ſinnes they have provoked the Lord to wrath: ſith if they returne unto him and ſeek his favour, there is yet mercy with the Lord that he may be feared? Loe, this is the right uſe of hiſtories: and this is our duty to make obſervations to our ſelves, as did the Prophet here, I ſaw the tents of Cuſhan: I conſidered the thing that hath been, it is the ſame which ſhall be, and that which is done, is that which ſhall be done &c. Eccleſ. 1.9. Hiſtoriae fidae monitrices. Dicuntur [non-Latin text not transcribed].

And the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble] Cortinae vel pelles &c. When by the ſword of the Lord and of Gideon they were cut off and diſcomfited Judg. 7.7. &c.