Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
suddenly—the answer to the question, "How long?" (Habakkuk 2:6).
bite—often used of usury; so favoring LEE'S rendering (Habakkuk 2:6). As the Chaldean, like a usurer, oppressed others, so other nations shall, like usurers, take pledges of, that is, spoil, him.
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