John Trapp on Joel 1:10

Verſe 10. The field is waſted the land mourneth] The ſacrifices are not only cut off for preſent, but little hopes left for the future: for the field, that common ſtorehouſe, that horreum unde hauriatur, is waſted: Shuddad Sadeh, there is an elegant alluſion in the Original: as in the following words a Proſopopoeia not inferiour to thoſe of the Poets, as Luther and Vatablus here note.

The land mourneth] By an ordinary Metaphor among the Hebrewes, thoſe things are ſaid to mourn that are waſted, defolated, corrupted and changed for the worſe. Lam. 2.8. the rampart and the wall are ſaid to lament, Plutarch. and to languiſh together. When Epheſtion died, Alexander not only clypped his horſes and mules hair, but plucked down alſo the battlements of the walles of the city: becauſe it ſhould appear that the walls and ramparts did mourn for his death: So Eſay 24.7. The new wine mourneth, the vine languiſheth: all the merry-hearted do ſigh. It is fit that if the land mourn, and faile of her increaſe, men ſhould much more mourn and be moved with a ſenſe of their ſins, the cauſe of ſuch calamities. The earth lies under a curſe of barrenneſſe, at its beſt Gen. 3.17. and was never ſo beautiful and cheerfull ſince the Fall of Adam. At this day it lyeth bed-rid, as it were, waiting for the comming of the Son of God, that it may be delivered from the bondage of corruption Rom. 8.20. But in times of dearth, it ſeemeth to mourn more then ordinary, yea to bluſh and bleed.

the new wine is dried up] Or is abaſhed: as loth to look men in the face, becauſe not anſwerable to their expectation, See Eſay. 33.9.

the oyl languiſheth] Or, is ſick. Corn, wine, and oyle, are the maine ſupports of mans life: all's gone.