¹⁰ This is what the Lord God says. On that day plans will come into your mind, and you will plot an evil scheme. ¹¹ You will say, “I will go up against a land of unwalled villages. I will attack the peaceful people who live in security, all of them living without walls, with neither bars nor gates. ¹² I will attack in order to seize spoils and carry off plunder, to assault resettled ruins and to attack people returned from the nations, people who are acquiring livestock and other property, people who live at the center^[a] of the earth.”

¹³ Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all its leaders^[b] will say to you, “Have you come to seize spoils? Have you gathered your horde to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and other property, to seize a large amount of spoils?”