Joel 3:10 — Bible Verse (KJV)

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

Joel 3:10 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Joel 3:10 in 6 Bible Translations

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Joel 3:10 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

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

Joel 3:10 — World English Bible

Joel 3:10 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

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

Joel 3:10 — American Standard Version

Joel 3:10 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I <FI>am<Fi> mighty.'”

Joel 3:10 — Young's Literal Translation

Joel 3:10 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

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

Joel 3:10 — Darby Translation

Joel 3:10 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

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

Joel 3:10 — Geneva Bible

Joel 3:10 in Context — Joel 3

8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

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

11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.

12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

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What Does Joel 3:10 Mean?

Joel 3:10 is a verse from the Book of Joel, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Joel chapter 3. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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