Albert Barnes Commentary Habakkuk 2:16

"Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah`s right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory." — Habakkuk 2:16 (ASV)

You are filled with shame for glory - Oppressors think to make themselves great by bringing others down, to fill themselves with riches by spoiling others. They loved shame (Hosea 4:8), because they loved that which brought shame; they were filled with shame, because they sated themselves with shamefulness, which was their shame within, before, in the just judgment of God, shame came on them from without (Philippians 3:19). Their glory was in their shame. They shall be filled, yes, he says, they are already filled; they would satisfy, gorge themselves, with all their hearts’ desires; they are filled to the full, but with shame instead of glory which they sought, or which they already had. From and for a state of glory, they were filled with contempt.

Drink you also, and let your foreskin be uncovered - your shame like those whom you put to shame, only the greater in being uncircumcised. The cup of the Lord’s Right Hand shall be turned (round) to you (or against you). It had gone round the circuit of the nations whom God had employed him to chasten, and now, the circle completed, it should be brought round to himself, With what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you again (Matthew 7:2).

So Jeremiah says (Jeremiah 25:26), And the king of Shesbach shall drink after them; and of Edom (Lamentations 4:21), To you also shall the cup be brought round. You, a man, made man drink of the cup of your anger: the cup shall be brought round to you, but not by man; to you it shall be given by the Right Hand of the Lord, which you cannot escape; it shall be the cup of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God (Revelation 16:19); as Asaph had said (Psalms 76:8), There is a cup in the Lord’s hand; it is full of mixture, and He pours out from it; but the dregs of it all the ungodly of the earth shall suck them out, shall drink them.

And shameful spewing shall be on your glory - Jerome: “With the shame of your spewing you shall bring up all you have swallowed down, and from the height of glory you shall be brought to the utmost ills.” The shame of the ungodly comes forth from himself; the shame he put others to is doubled upon himself; and the very means which he had used to fill himself with glory and greatness, cover the glory which by nature he had, with the deeper disgrace, so that he should be a loathsome and revolting sight to all. Man veils foul deeds under fair words; God, in His word, unveils the foulness.