Joel 1:18

18 The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.

Joel 1:18 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:18

How do the beasts groan?
&c.] For want of fodder, all green grass and herbs being eaten up by the locusts; or devoured, or trampled upon, and destroyed, by the Chaldeans; and also for want of water to quench their thirst: the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture;
the larger cattle, as oxen; these were in the utmost perplexity, not knowing where to go for food or drink: yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate;
which have shepherds to lead and direct them to pastures, and can feed on commons, where the grass is short, which other cattle cannot; yet even these were in great distress, and wasted away, and were consumed for want of nourishment.

Joel 1:18 In-Context

16 We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.

17 The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins.

18 The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.

19 I cry out to you, Lord, because the pastures and trees are dried up, as though a fire had burned them.

20 Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have become dry.