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Joe_1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Ver. 20. The beasts of the field cry also unto thee] Glocitant, a term taken from deer; they cry as they can, they cry by implication, imploring thine help, each for himself. See Psa_149:9 Job_39:3 Psa_104:27; and should men be silent?
For the rivers of the waters are dried up] This maketh the hart bray after the waterbrooks, yea, shed tears, as hunters say the hart will, when hot and hard pressed for water. Hereto David seems to allude, Psa_42:3, "My tears have been my meat," &c.
And the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness] This had been said before, Joe_1:19. The reason of such repetitions, {See Trapp on "Joe_1:11"} {See Trapp on "Joe_1:12\i0 } Neither let this last exaggeration of the common calamity, by that which befell the brute beasts, seem superfluous. For whereas the security and obstinace of most men is such, that they take little notice of present pressures, but promise themselves peace and safety, whatsoever God, by his servants, shall say to the contrary; it is but needful, surely, that their danger should be inculcated, and their calamity set out, and set on with utmost importunity and vehemence.