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 it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before any other herb.

Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

“As water evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,

From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

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,

when dust dries into a mass and then breaks apart into clods?