Joel 3:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’”
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“Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I <FI>am<Fi> mighty.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joel 3:10 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.”
- 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 anymore for war.
- 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 against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
- 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.
- Luke 13:12When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).