Albert Barnes Commentary Habakkuk 1:15

"He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad." — Habakkuk 1:15 (ASV)

They take up all of them - (literally “he takes up all of it”) the whole race as though it were one,

With an angle; they catch them - literally, he sweeps it away

In their (his) net - One fisherman is singled out who partly by wiles (as by the bait of “an angle”), partly by violence (the net or drag) sweeps away and gathers as his own the whole kind.

Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans are in this a faint image of Satan, who casts out his baits and his nets in the stormy sea of this life, taking some by individual craft, sweeping others in whole masses to do evil. Whoever has no ruler, and will not have Christ to reign over him (Luke 19:4), Satan allures, hurries, and drags away as his prey.

Jerome writes: “Adam clung to his hook, and he drew him out of Paradise with his net; and covered him with his drags, his varied and manifold deceits and guiles. And by one many became sinners, and in Adam we all died, and all saints afterward were with him alike cast out of Paradise. And because he deceived the first man, he does not cease daily to slay the whole human race.”