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

His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

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

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

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].

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

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

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

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

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

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