John Trapp on Joel 1:19

Verſe. 19. O Lord to thee will I cry.] I will, though others will not. I have called upon others to cry mightily unto thee, and to meet thee by repentance: but they ranquam monſtra marina, as ſo many Sea-monſters, paſſe by my words with a deaff ear, they refuſe to return: thy hand is lifted up in threatning, and will fall down in puniſhing, but they will not ſee, Eſay. 26.11. they will not ſearch, they will not have their eyes (like the windowes in Solomons Temple) broad inward: the eyes of their mindes are as ill ſet (for this matter) as the eyes of their bodies, they ſee not what's within. But whatever they do,1 King. 6.4. my ſoul ſhall weep in ſecret for their pride, and mine eyes ſhall weep ſore, &c. (Jer. 13.17.) for their inſenſibleneſſe of their miſery.

For the fire hath devoured the paſtures,] that is, the immoderate ſcorching heat of the ſeaſon. See Pſal. 83.14. Jer. 17.6. Or the blaſting winde, as Lyra expounds it; or the locuſts, as Druſius, or God, (who is a conſuming fire) by any, or all theſe inſtruments of his wrath, as Tarnouius.

And the flame hath burnt all the arees of the field.] This was dreadfull; but yet nothing to that conflagratio mundi, ſpoken of by St. Peter, 2 Epiſt. 3.12. when the heavens being on fire, ſhall be diſſolved, and the elements melt with fervent heat on the heads of the wicked: who ſhall give a terrible account, with the world all on alight fire about their ears.