7 ^a“Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.  ‡

8 ^aAfter many days ^byou will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword ^cand gathered from many people on ^dthe mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them ^edwell safely.  ‡

11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of ^aunwalled villages; I will ^bgo to a peaceful people, ^cwho dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—  ‡

12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, ^aand against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.  ‡