To take plunder, and to carry off spoil; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Midst. Literally, "navel. "Hebrew, "Thabor "intimating a mountain rising in a plain, Judges ix. 7. (Calmet)
Alluding to this intended blunder of the Jews lately returned, he speaks of Antichrist and of all heretics, who seek to pervert or suppress Catholics rescued from the power of the devil, by the sacraments of Christ. (Worthington)