Verse
Joel 3:10 — Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears…
“Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.”
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The verses around Joel 3:10.
8And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
Verse explanation
'Beat your plowshares into swords' deliberately reverses the more famous image of turning swords into plowshares (used in Isaiah and Micah): here, instead, it's a sarcastic call to the nations to go to war, already knowing they will lose.
From the Joel 3 study in Bible in Stories.
Joel 3:10 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Forjae espadas das vossas enxadas, e lanças das vossas foices: diga o fraco: Forte sou eu.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Fazei espadas de vossas enxadas, e lanças de vossas foices; diga o fraco: Sou forte.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Forjen las puntas de las palas para el arado y hagan espadas con ellas. Conviertan sus podaderas en lanzas. Incluso los débiles deberán decir: ‘Soy un soldado fuerte!’
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