פירוש על יואל 1:19

the dwellings of the wilderness Heb. נְאוֹת, an expression of a dwelling (נָוֶה).

(19)-And about all this bad, the Prophet says to "call out to Hashem" like a person who sees himself in a great trouble and doesn't know what to do and calls out to the Gd of his fathers. And about this trouble of the enemy it says "because a fire has consumed the pleasantness of the wilderness and a flame has eaten the trees of the field" and this also proves that the lamentation isn't only about the locusts but rather about the churban. Because of the use of the example of a fire, which other commentaries attribute to the drought that followed the locusts but that isn't a correct explanation. And because Nevuchad Nezer, who destroyed Jerusalem had first destroyed many other nations, like it says in Jeremiah, and therefore the pasuk says (20)-also the beasts fo the field... that they are also callling out to Hashem because of Nevuchad Nezer that destoryed their springs and it is a hint to their kingdoms which were conquered and therefore it says "the fire consumes the pastures of the wilder ness."