Joel 1:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰The 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.

Joel 1:20 —

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Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
1 Kings 17:7
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Psalms 147:9
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
1 Kings 18:5
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-20)

We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation before God. The judgment was very heavy, and here they are directed to own the hand of God in it, his mighty hand, and to humble themselves under it. Here is, I. A proclamation issued out for a general…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. beasts ... cry ... unto thee--that is, look up to heaven with heads lifted up, as if their only expectation was from God (Job 38:41; Psa 104:21; 145:15; 147:9; compare Psa 42:1). They tacitly reprove the deadness of the Jews for not even now invoking God.