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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 1:20

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee. — The prophet has cried to God; the very beasts echo that cry, “looking up” to Him. As yet, man seems dumb.

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See also Joel 1:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joel 1:20. _THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD CRY ALSO UNTO THEE_] Even the cattle, wild and tame, are represented as supplicating God to have mercy upon them, and send them provender! There is a similar...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD CRY ALSO UNTO THEE - o: “There is an order in these distresses. First he points out the insensate things wasted; then those afflicted, which have sense only; then those endowed...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE RUIN, THE REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL'S ENEMIES JUDGED AND TH...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    RIVERS. waters of the _Aphikim. See_ note on "channels", 2 Samuel 22:16....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In justification of the alarm just expressed, the prophet points again to the terrible condition to which the country has been reduced: anything which the locusts may have spared has been parched by t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    YEA, _the beasts of the field_ PANT (R.V.) _unto thee_ lit. ASCEND, MOUNT UP (viz. with longing and desire). The verb occurs in Heb. only here and Psalms 42:1 (twice). In Ethiopic it is the regular w...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _CRYING UNTO THE LORD -- JOEL 1:18-20:_ The devastation was great in the land. Joel wrote, "How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE BEASTS, &C.—_THE PASTURES_— _Every one of the beasts cries,_ &c.—the pleasant places. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The prophet opens his discourse, 1. With an address to all the inhabitants of Judea, old an...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD CRY ALSO UNTO THEE - i:e., look...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT THIS BOOK Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself. Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the birth...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־בַּהֲמֹ֥ות שָׂדֶ֖ה תַּעֲרֹ֣וג אֵלֶ֑יךָ כִּ֤י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the (k) fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (k) That is, drought....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Up, as if to pray for rain, Jeremias xiv. 6. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "cry," (Haydock) or "pant." --- As....rain is not in Hebrew or Septuagint. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! mark in the instance of this Prophet to what all-the other Prophets of God bear equal testimony; the process of grace in all ages is the same. Sin brings forth sorrow, and godly so...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here comes in to our relief the blessedness of that gospel, which under the conviction of sin, and a total inability to help ourselves, leads to Christ. For I hope, I need not point out to the Reader,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He afterwards adds _The beasts of the field will also cry _(for the verb is in the plural number;) the beasts then will cry. The Prophet expresses here more clearly what he had said before that though...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD CRY ALSO UNTO THEE,.... As well as the prophet, in their way; which may be mentioned, both as a rebuke to such who had no sense of the judgments upon them, and called not on th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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_] _G...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O Lord, to thee will I cry_ The prophet carries on the beautiful hypotyposis, (or description of the calamity, painted in such strong and bright colours as rendered it, as it were, present before the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The beasts of the field, both domestic and wild animals, CRY ALSO UNTO THEE, their dumb misery being a powerful appeal for help; FOR THE RIVERS OF WATERS ARE DRIED UP, AND THE FIRE HATH DEVOURED THE P...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE BEASTS: see JOEL 1:18. CRY; the wilder sort, that rove about many miles seeking their livelihood, find no sustenance, they look up to God, and cry to him: these creatures, that can better shift fo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:20 beasts H929 field H7704 cry H6165 (H8799) water H4325 brooks H650 up H3001 (H8804) fire...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to repentance. The plague of insects. CHARACTERS: God, Joel. CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the Word...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:19 TO YOU, O LORD, I CALL. The devastation brought by the Lord can be relieved only by him. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:19.] Beasts cry to God, but man hears not; the prophet is touched and cries for the impenitent. TO THEE] beasts even lift their heads in dumb appeal, and to thee I cry, for tho...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOEL 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the same name, b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we don't know....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 17:7; 1 Kings 18:5; Job 38:41; Psalms 104:21; Psalms 145:15;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cry — They utter their complaints, their sad tones, they have a voice to cry, as well as an eye to look to God....

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