Joel 1:17
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
The verse depicts agricultural ruin in which the seed rots beneath the soil under the clods, the garners and storehouses lie desolate and empty, the barns are broken down and collapse, and the corn and grain withers. It portrays the day of the Lord as a time of devastation and severe destruction.
The destruction brings famine that leaves people and animals without food. This agricultural ruin is part of the prophesied scenes of coming trouble that describe the state of the world just before the second coming.
It applies to the coming time of divine wrath in the seven last plagues, also called the final plagues, before Christ's second coming. It portrays the earth's condition under severe and fearful judgments that fall on the world before God's people are finally delivered.