Habakkuk 2:5

The Lord advanced the thought of Habakkuk 2:4 further. When a person drinks too much wine it leads him to reveal his pride publicly. The Babylonians were known for their consumption of wine (e.g., Daniel 5). Wine makes a person dissatisfied with his present situation and possessions, and he often leaves his home to find more elsewhere (cf. Proverbs 23:31-32). The proud person is never satisfied, like death that consumes people every day and never stops. Babylon was similar, opening wide its jaws to consume all peoples. The proud person also seeks to dominate others, and this too marked Babylon. These were the evidences of Babylon’s pride and the basis of Yahweh’s indictment of this nation (cf. Habakkuk 1:17).

"Sheol is, in the O.T., the place to which the dead go. (1) Often, therefore, it is spoken of as the equivalent of the grave, where all human activities cease; the terminus toward which all human life moves (e.g. Genesis 42:38; Job 14:13; Psalms 88:3). (2) To the man ’under the sun,’ the natural man, who of necessity judges from appearances, sheol seems no more than the grave-the end and total cessation, not only of the activities of life, but also of life itself (Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 9:10). But (3) Scripture reveals sheol as a place of sorrow (2 Samuel 22:6; Psalms 18:5; Psalms 116:3), into which the wicked are turned (Psalms 9:17), and where they are fully conscious (Isaiah 14:9-17; Ezekiel 32:21). Compare Jonah 2:2; what the belly of the great fish was to Jonah, sheol is to those who are therein. The sheol of the O.T. and hades of the N.T. are identical." [Note: The New Scofield Reference Bible, p. 954.]