Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

As the waters fail from the sea, and a river falls away and dries up,

He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and at the breath of his mouth he shall turn away.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and his branch shall wither above.

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,