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Green's Literal Translation

Joel 3:10

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hooks;   Joel;   Plowshare;   Pruning;   Spear;   Sword;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture-Horticulture;   Pruning-Hook;   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Enemies;   Gathering;   Gentiles/heathen;   Harvest;   Israel/jews;   Judges;   Nations;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Spear;   Sword, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Plough;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Grapes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day of the Lord, God, Christ, the;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Coulter;   Hook;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joel;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Armour, Arms;   Joel, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoshaphat (2);   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hook, Hooks;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Pruning hook;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plough;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armor;   Hook;   Joel (2);   Plow;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sword;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Beat your plows into swords. Make spears from your pruning hooks. Let the weak man say, "I am a strong soldier."
New American Standard Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak man say, "I am a warrior."
New Century Version
Make swords from your plows, and make spears from your hooks for trimming trees. Let even the weak person say, "I am a soldier."
New English Translation
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!'
Update Bible Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Webster's Bible Translation
Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
Amplified Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am strong!"
English Standard Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
World English Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Beete ye togydere youre plowis in to swerdis, and youre mattokkis in to speeris; a sijk man seie, that Y am strong.
English Revised Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Berean Standard Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong!'
Contemporary English Version
Make swords out of plows and spears out of garden tools. Strengthen every weakling."
American Standard Version
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
class="poetry"> "After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions; and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit. I will show wonders in the sky and on earth — blood, fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai ." At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.
Darby Translation
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
[4:10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'
King James Version (1611)
Beate your plowe shares into swords, and your pruning hookes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong.
New Living Translation
Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
New Life Bible
Beat your plows into swords, and your vine hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am a powerful soldier."
New Revised Standard
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.
George Lamsa Translation
Beat your plowshares into swords and your sickles into spears. Let the weak say, I am a mighty man.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears, - as for the weak, let him say, mighty, I am.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
Revised Standard Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Breake your plowe shares into swordes, and your sithes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Good News Translation
Hammer the points of your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.
Christian Standard Bible®
Beat your plows into swordsand your pruning knives into spears.Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Hebrew Names Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong."
King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Lexham English Bible
Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, ‘I am a mighty warrior!'
Young's Literal Translation
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I [am] mighty.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Make you sweardes of youre ploweshares, and speares of youre syckles & sythes. Let ye weake man saye: I am stronge.
New King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am strong."'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."
Legacy Standard Bible
Beat your plowshares into swordsAnd your pruning hooks into spears;Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."

Contextual Overview

9 Proclaim this among the nations: Sanctify a war; awaken the mighty men; let all the men of war 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 Gather yourselves and come, all you nations; and gather yourselves together all around. O Jehovah, bring down Your mighty ones. 12 Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit to judge all the nations all around. 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall gather in their light. 16 And Jehovah roars from Zion, and He gives His voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth quake. But Jehovah is a refuge for His people and a fortress to the sons of Israel. 17 And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be a holy thing, and aliens shall no more pass through her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your plowshares: Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3, Luke 22:36

pruninghooks: or, scythes

let: 2 Chronicles 25:8, Zechariah 12:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:22 - strengthen Isaiah 41:1 - let the people Luke 13:12 - loosed

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed leaves of the fig tree, and made girdles for themselves.
Genesis 3:17
And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eatof it in sorrow all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18
And it shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plant of the field.
Exodus 3:6
And He said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he feared to look upon God.
Exodus 32:25
And Moses saw the people, that it was unloosed, for Aaron had let it loose for a derision among their enemies.
Job 23:15
On account of this I am troubled from His presence; I consider, and am in dread of Him.
Psalms 119:120
My flesh has shivered because of Your fear; and I have feared Your judgments.
Isaiah 33:14
The sinners of Zion are afraid; terror has seized profane ones; who of us shall tarry with consuming fire? Who of us shall tarry with everlasting burnings?
Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered; yea, your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance and I will not meet a man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears,.... Let not only soldiers, and such as have been trained up in military discipline, appear in the field on this occasion; but let husbandmen and vinedressers leave their fields and vineyards, and turn their instruments of husbandry and vinedressing into weapons of war; let them not plead want of armour, but convert these to such uses: on the contrary, when this battle will be over, swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks, Isaiah 2:4;

let the weak say, I [am] strong; such as are weak, through sickness, or old age, let them not plead their weakness to excuse them from engaging in this war; but let them make the best of themselves, and say they are strong and healthy, and fit for it, and enter in it with all courage and bravery: this is said either ironically to the enemies of God's people, suggesting that all hands would be wanted, and should be employed, weak and strong, and all little enough; when they had made the utmost effort they could, it would be in vain: or else they are seriously spoken to the people of God, that none of them should excuse themselves, or be discouraged because of their weakness from engaging in this last and more battle; but take heart, and be of good courage, and quit themselves like men, and be strong, since they might be sure of victory beforehand. The Apostle Paul refers to this text in

2 Corinthians 12:10; and applies it to spiritual weakness and strength; and indeed the weakest believer, that is so in faith and] knowledge, may say he is strong, in comparison of what he once was, and others are; strong, not in himself, but in Christ, and the power of his might, and in the grace that is in him; nor should he excuse himself from fighting the Lord's battles, against sin, Satan, and the world, and false teachers; or from doing the Lord's work, any service he calls him to; or from bearing the cross he lays on him on account of his weakness; nor should he: be discouraged by it from those things; but let him strengthen himself, as Aben Ezra interprets it, take heart, and be of good courage.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beat your plowshares into swords - Peace had been already promised, as a blessing of the gospel. “In His days,” foretold Solomon, “shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth” Psalms 72:7. And another, “He maketh thy borders peace” Psalms 147:14. Peace within with God flows forth in peace with man. “Righteousness and peace kissed each other” Psalms 85:10. Where there is not rest in God, all is unrest. And so, all which was needful for life, the means of subsistence, care of health, were to be forgotten for war.

Let the weak say, I am strong - It is one last gathering of the powers of the world against their Maker; the closing scene of man’s rebellion against God. It is their one universal gathering. None, however seemingly unfit, was to be spared from this conflict; no one was to remain behind. The farmer was to forge for war the instruments of his peaceful toil; the sick was to forget his weakness and to put on a strength which he had not, and that to the uttermost. But as weakness is, in and through God, strength, so all strength out of God is weakness. Man may say, I am strong; but, against God, he remains weak as, it is said, that weak man Psalms 10:18) from the earth may no more oppress.


 
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