Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
New American Standard Bible
And your pruning hooks into spears;
King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Holman Bible
and your pruning knives into spears.
Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
International Standard Version
Beat your plow blades into swords, and your pruning knives into spears! Let the frail say, "I am strong!"
A Conservative Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
American Standard Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Amplified
Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, “I am strong!”
Bible in Basic English
Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
Darby Translation
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
Julia Smith Translation
Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.
King James 2000
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, 'I am a mighty warrior!'
Modern King James verseion
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Make you swords of your plowshares, and spears of your sickles and scythes. Let the weak man say, "I am strong."
NET Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, 'I too am a warrior!'
The Emphasized Bible
Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears, - as for the weak, let him say, mighty, I am.
Webster
Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
World English Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
Youngs Literal Translation
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, 'I am mighty.'
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
Gathering » The lord gathering the nations together
Gentiles/heathen » The lord judging the heathen
Harvest » The day of the lord’s harvest
Israel/jews » Israel being attacked
Joel » Denounced » Judgments » Against » enemies of God
Nations » The lord gathering the nations together
Spear » Pruning-hooks beat into
Interlinear
Kathath
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joel 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's Judgment In The Valley Of Jehoshaphat
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, LORD.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 2:4
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:3
and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
Zechariah 12:8
In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.
2 Chronicles 25:8
But if you will go, take action, be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow."
Luke 22:36
Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse must take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, must sell his cloak, and buy a sword.