Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
He who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion (cf. Job 9:9; Job 38:31 — the rising of Pleiades before daybreak signaled the return of spring while the rising of Orion after sunset heralded the onset of winter), He who controls the 24-hour cycle of day and night, turning blackness into dawn and day into night, He who controls the elements of nature, gathering by evaporation the waters of the sea and draining them out over… the land — this great Sovereign of the universe is also Israel’s covenant God. The Lord (Yahweh) is His name. And He would judge their covenant faithfulness.