Hab 2:16 | JFB | STEP | 16. art filled-- now that thou art fallen. "Thou art filled" indeed (though so insatiable), but it is "with shame." shame for glory-- instead of thy former glory ( ). drink thou also-- The cup of sorrow is now in thy turn to pass to thee ( ; ). thy foreskin-- expressing in Hebrew feeling the most utter contempt. So of Goliath ( ). It is not merely thy "nakedness," as in , that shall be "uncovered," but the foreskin, the badge of thy being an uncircumcised alien from God. The same shall be done to thee, as thou didst to others, and worse. cup ... shall be turned unto thee-- literally, "shall turn itself," namely, from the nations whom thou hast made to drink it. "Thou shalt drink it all, so that it may be turned as being drained" [Grotius]. shameful spewing-- that is, vomiting; namely, that of the king of Babylon, compelled to disgorge the spoil he had swallowed. It expresses also the ignominious state of Babylon in its calamity ( ). "Be drunken, spew, and fall." Less appropriately it is explained of the foe spewing in the face of the Babylonian king.

‏ Habakkuk 2:16

16. art filled--now that thou art fallen. "Thou art filled" indeed (though so insatiable), but it is "with shame."

shame for glory--instead of thy former glory (Ho 4:7).

drink thou also--The cup of sorrow is now in thy turn to pass to thee (Jr 25:15-17; La 4:21).

thy foreskin--expressing in Hebrew feeling the most utter contempt. So of Goliath (1Sa 17:36). It is not merely thy "nakedness," as in Ha 2:15, that shall be "uncovered," but the foreskin, the badge of thy being an uncircumcised alien from God. The same shall be done to thee, as thou didst to others, and worse.

cup ... shall be turned unto thee--literally, "shall turn itself," namely, from the nations whom thou hast made to drink it. "Thou shalt drink it all, so that it may be turned as being drained" [Grotius].

shameful spewing--that is, vomiting; namely, that of the king of Babylon, compelled to disgorge the spoil he had swallowed. It expresses also the ignominious state of Babylon in its calamity (Jr 25:27). "Be drunken, spew, and fall." Less appropriately it is explained of the foe spewing in the face of the Babylonian king.