Joel 3:10

In 11 translations

BSB

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Beat your plowshares to swords, || And your pruning-hooks to javelins, || Let the weak say, “I [am] mighty.”

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

JPS4:10

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

LXXE4:10

Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.Or, daggers.

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Original-language editions

WLC4:10

כֹּ֤תּוּ אִתֵּיכֶם֙ לַֽחֲרָב֔וֹת וּמַזְמְרֹֽתֵיכֶ֖ם לִרְמָחִ֑ים הַֽחַלָּ֔שׁ יֹאמַ֖ר גִּבּ֥וֹר אָֽנִי׃KJV:Joel.3.10

LXX-Br4:10

συγκόψατε τὰ ἄροτρα ὑμῶν εἰς ῥομφαίας, καὶ τὰ δρέπανα ὑμῶν εἰς σειρομάστας· ὁ ἀδύνατος λεγέτω, ὅτι ἰσχύω ἐγώ.

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• Zechariah 12:8On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
• Micah 4:3Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword…
• Isaiah 2:4Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train…
• 2 Chronicles 25:8Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
• Luke 22:36“Now, however,” He told them, “the one with a purse should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one.

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