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


In Context

7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;

8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.|

9 Proclaim this among the nations: |Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors 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 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.| Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.

12 |Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

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 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 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.'