¹⁷ You who swelter in your clothes
    when the land lies hushed under the south wind,^(A)

¹⁸ He sends his word^(A) and melts them;
    he stirs up his breezes,^(B) and the waters flow.

³¹ “Can you bind the chains^[a] of the Pleiades?
    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?^(A)

¹⁷ but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat^(A) vanish from their channels.