¹⁰ “‘This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. ¹¹ You will say, “I will advance against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely,^(A) all of them living without walls and without bars or gates”^(B)— ¹² in order to seize spoil and carry off plunder,^(C) to turn your hand against ruins now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have been acquiring cattle and possessions and who live at the center of the world.