Joel 1:17

The seed; 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 rotten; 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. The garners, or storehouses, treasuries of corn, in which it was kept for future use, are laid desolate; 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 Joel 1:4: or else desolate, being pulled down, and the materials employed for other uses, till they may have corn to keep in them. The barns, in which they lodged their unthrashed corn, are broken down; neglected, and without repair; for the corn is withered; there was no use of them, no corn to be laid up, all withered, and therefore the barns were not regarded.