Joel 1:19

Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I cry the prophet, speaking (as Joel 1:6; Joel 1:13) in the nation's name, turns for help to Jehovah, who "saveth men and cattle" (Psalms 36:6).

fire either fig. of the intense heat of the sun, or (comp. on Amos 7:4) of the conflagrations kindled among the parched herbage during a drought. The words might, however, be simply a poetical description of the ravages of the locusts themselves (cf. Joel 2:3 a).

the pastures of the wilderness Joel 1:20; Joel 2:22; Jeremiah 9:10; Jeremiah 23:10; Psalms 65:12. "Wilderness" does not mean the desert: midbâr(properly, a place for drivingcattle) denotes land which is unenclosed, and uncultivated, especially a broad prairie or steppe, but not land which is destitute of pasturage.