Joel 1:17
The 5seed is rotten under their clods, the a*garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
5:
Heb. grains.
a:
Jeremiah 41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
Jeremiah 14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
Amos 4:6-4:8 6. ¶And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 7. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8. So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
*:
garners-barns, grain stores.
called so from the seedsman’s scattering it abroad when he soweth it, and in this place only so used, for aught I can observe, and yet this use of it here is justified by all the following words; the grain which is sown for the seed against next spring.
is putrefied, grown musty and fruitless; nor is this word any where else used in Scripture. Under their clods, and earth, from under which the seed covered should spring up, but now, as unsound, rotten, and fruitless seed, is lost under it.
or storehouses, treasuries of corn, in which it was kept for future use,
either run to ruin, because the owners, discouraged with the barrenness of the seasons, would not repair them; this will intimate that this judgment lasted some years, and is better ground for it than the four sorts of vermin repeated one after another, in Joe 1:4: or else desolate, being pulled down, and the materials employed for other uses, till they may have corn to keep in them.
in which they lodged their unthrashed corn,
neglected, and without repair;
there was no use of them, no corn to be laid up, all withered, and therefore the barns were not regarded.