At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:

“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

“As water evaporates from the sea,
And a river drains and dries up,

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

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

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

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