'Dry' in the Bible

“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

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

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

“From want and famine they are gauntWho gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,