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


In Context

7 "See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.

8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away." The Lord has spoken.

9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.

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

11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord !

12 "Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.

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 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 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.'