John Trapp on Joel 1:17

Verſe 17 The ſeed is rotten under their clods] It lieth buried or drowned with exceſſive rain and moiſture, corrupting the ſeed ſoon after it was ſown: and that which was not ſo marred, was afterwards, when it came to be corn, dried up with exceſſive heat.

The corn is withered.] So that the garners were deſolated, the barnes broken down for want of ſtuffing, and for that there was no uſe of them, ſith they ſowed, but reaped not, Mic. 6.15. The husbandman was called to mourning, Amos 5.16, for a three-fold calamity that lay upon his tillage. Firſt, Immoderate rain, in or about ſeeding. Secondly, Locuſts and other vermine at ſpring. Thirdly, extreme drought after all, verſe 19, 20. Thus God followeth ſinners with one plague in the neck of another, (as he did Pharaoh, that ſturdy rebell) till he have made his foes his footſtools To multiply ſin, is to multiply ſorrow, Pſal. 16.4. to heap up wickedneſſe, is to heap up wrath, Rom 2.5. I will heap miſchiefs upon them,Si quoties peccent homines ſua fulmina mittat Jupiter, exiguo tempora inermis er[illegible: 2 letters]. Ovid. ſaith God, I will ſpend mine arrows upon them, Deut. 32.23. which yet cannot be all ſpent up, as the Poet feared of his Jupiter, that if he ſhould puniſh men for every offence, his ſtore of thunder-bolts would be ſoon ſpent and exhauſted.