Albert Barnes Commentary Habakkuk 2:7

"Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?" — Habakkuk 2:7 (ASV)

Shall not they rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you? - The destruction of the wicked is always sudden at last. Such was the flood (Luke 17:26–27), the destruction of Sodom, of Pharaoh, of the enemies of God’s people through the Judges, of Sennacherib, Nineveh, Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Such shall the end be (Matthew 24:43–44; Matthew 25:13; Luke 17:26–30; Luke 21:34–35; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 16:15).

As he by his oppressions had pierced others (it is the word used of the oppression of usury), so should it be done to him.

“The Medes and Persians who were before subject to the Babylonian empire, and whose kings were subject to Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, rose up and awoke, that is, stirred themselves up in the days of Belshazzar to rebel against the successors of Nebuchadnezzar who sat on his throne, like a man who awakes from sleep.”

The words “awake,” “arise,” are also used of the resurrection, when the worm of the wicked gnaws and does not die (Isaiah 66:24).

And you shall be for booties unto them? - The common phrase is modified to explain the manifoldness of the plunder which he should yield. So Jeremiah (Jeremiah 50:10), “Chaldaea shall be a spoil; all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.”

See Cyr: “We may hear Him who says (Matthew 12:29), ‘How can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.’ For, as soon as He was born of the holy Virgin, He began to ‘spoil his goods.’ For the Magi came from the East and worshiped Him and honored Him with gifts, and became a first-fruits of the Church of the Gentiles. And being vessels of Satan, and the most honored of all his members, they hastened to Christ.”