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


In Context

7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.

8 And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.

9 Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.

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

11 Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.

12 Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations 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 American King James 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 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.'