Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 1:19

19 O LORD , to thee will I cry : for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness , and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field.

Maker and preserver of these poor famisht Cattel.

Either 'tis the Prophets Prayer he maketh, or a form prescribed for the Priests.

The immoderate heats, or else the scorching and blasting flashes of fire in the air, which in those hot Countries are more frequent and more pernicious then in colder Climates.

The fruitful and pleasant places where Shepherds pitcht their Tents, and were use to feed their sheep, all are parcht and dryed as if burnt with fire.

Either because the Shepherds chose to pitch their Tents far from Cities and Towns, or else, because in those vast Wildernesses there were some fruitful Pastures scattered up and down, some lower places of Springs and Water-courses.

The flashes of fire from the Clouds, or in the Air, without Thunder, or else Lightenings with Thunder.

That they neither afford their fruit, their shade, or their green boughs for brouse for the relief of man or beast. This extream desolation should affect them all, it doth shame the sinfully sensless among them, and it is a good argument to use with God, whose creatures they are as well as man.

Marginal references: Or, habitations