10Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.


In Context

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your recompense on your own head:

8 And 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 has spoken it.

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

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

11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

Joel 3:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, "I am strong!"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, 'I am mighty.'