John Trapp on Joel 1:15

Verſe 15 Alas for the day &c.]1 Sam. 1.15. Gr. Alas, Alas, Alas; the Vulgar Latine A, A, A, which à Lupide makes much adoe about, to little purpoſe.

for the day of the Lord] that is, The day of the greateſt evils and miſeries then ever hitherto they had ſuffered, if repentance prevent not. That they had ſuffered much already appeareth chap. 2.25. but thoſe were but the b[illegible: 1 letter]ginnings of their ſorrowes, if they yet went on in their ſins.

for as a deſtruction from the Almighty ſhall it come] An Elegant Agnomination there is in the Original: together with an alluſion to that tremend title of God Shaddai. The Jewes (probably) boaſted much and bare themſelves over-bold upon their intereſt in God almighty. The Prophet therefore tel's them that Gods greateſt power ſhould be little to their profit whiles impenitent: for that it ſhould be put forth and exerciſed for their utter deſtruction. Aben-Ezra interpreteth Shaddai a Conqueror, Others a Deſtroyer, which a Conqueror muſt needs be. And hereto this text and that Eſa. 13.6. do allude, when they ſay Shod ſhall come from Shaddai, Deſtruction from the Almighty. Here alſo we may learn when we are under affliction, to aſcend to the firſt cauſe thereof Am. 3.6. as David did in that three years famine 2 Sam. 21.1. See [illegible: 1 letter]am. 3.38.