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

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

By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.

Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

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

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

“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.

He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!

“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?
Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

“Though its roots grow old in the ground
And its stump dies in the dry soil,

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

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

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.