Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Yea also, because--additional reason why the Jews may look for God punishing their Chaldean foe, namely, because . . . he is
a proud man--rather, this clause continues the reason for the Jews expecting the punishment of the Chaldeans, "because he transgresseth by wine (a besetting sin of Babylon, compare Dan. 5:1-31, and CURTIUS [5.1]), being a proud man." Love of wine often begets a proud contempt of divine things, as in Belshazzar's case, which was the immediate cause of the fall of Babylon (Daniel 5:2-4, Daniel 5:30; compare Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 30:9; Proverbs 31:5).
enlargeth his desire as hell--the grave, or the unseen world, which is "never full" (Proverbs 27:20; Proverbs 30:16; Isaiah 5:14). The Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar were filled with an insatiable desire of conquest. Another reason for their punishment.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Lamentations 1:20
Habakkuk 2:4
Habakkuk 2:6
Habakkuk 2:8
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