و َبَعدَ مُدَّةٍ مِنَ الزَّمَنِ جَفَّ النَّهْرُ، إذْ لَمْ يَنزِلْ أيُّ مَطَرٍ.
And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.