Jeremiah 50:12

¹² Your mother shall be greatly confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Isaiah 44:27

²⁷ That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

In Genesis 24:7, this signifies confirmation from the Divine. (Arcana Coelestia 2842, 3037)