Joel 3:10 “Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. L…”

Joel 3:10

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

World English Bible

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’

American Standard Version

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

Geneva Bible 1599

Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

Darby Translation

Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

Young's Literal Translation

Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, 'I [am] mighty.'

Bible in Basic English

Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

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Cross references

“your plowshares”

Micah 4:3 Isaiah 2:4 Luke 22:36

Micah 4:3 · BSB

Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against…

Isaiah 2:4 · BSB

Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train an…

Luke 22:36 · BSB

“Now, however,” He told them, “the one with a purse should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one.

“let”

Zechariah 12:8 2 Chronicles 25:8

Zechariah 12:8 · BSB

On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.

2 Chronicles 25:8 · BSB

Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!

11Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.

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