Joel 3:9 “Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty me…”

Joel 3:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

World English Bible

Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

American Standard Version

Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

Geneva Bible 1599

Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men: let all the men of warre drawe neere and come vp.

Darby Translation

Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

Young's Literal Translation

Proclaim ye this among nations, Sanctify a war, stir up the mighty ones, Come nigh, come up, let all the men of war.

Bible in Basic English

Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

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Cross references

“Proclaim”

Jeremiah 31:10 Psalm 96:10 Isaiah 34:1 Jeremiah 50:2

Jeremiah 31:10 · BSB

Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

Psalm 96:10 · BSB

Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

Isaiah 34:1 · BSB

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pi…

“Prepare”

Ezekiel 21:21 Ezekiel 21:22

Ezekiel 21:21 · BSB

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Ezekiel 21:22 · BSB

In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a…

“wake”

Ezekiel 38:7 Isaiah 8:9 Isaiah 8:10 Jeremiah 46:3 Jeremiah 46:4

Ezekiel 38:7 · BSB

Get ready; prepare yourself, you and all your company gathered around you; you will be their guard.

Isaiah 8:9 · BSB

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8:10 · BSB

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us. ”

Jeremiah 46:3 · BSB

“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!

Jeremiah 46:4 · BSB

Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

Also

Micah 3:5

Micah 3:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:

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

In context

8I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

10Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

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