2. Figuratively, the waterish grounds, as waters seem to be taken, Ecc_11:1Isa_32:20. These being very fruitful, are commonly most inhabited and cultivated; but now they also, and much more the dry and barren grounds, shall be desolate, and without inhabitant.
There is no green thing, by the just and special judgment of God. Thus God and man conspire together to destroy them.