Joel 3:10
Cut your ploughs into swords and your hoes into spears. Let the weak say, ‘For I am strong.’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:8But if you think that a war stands by the strength of the army, God will cause you to be overwhelmed by the enemies. For indeed, it belongs to God to assist, and to put to flight.”
Micah 4:3And he will judge among the many peoples, and he will correct strong nations, even from afar. And they will cut up their swords into plows, and their spears into hoes. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, and they will no longer learn to wage war.
Luke 13:12And when Jesus saw her, he called her to himself, and he said to her, “Woman, you are released from your infirmity.”
Matthew Henry on Joel 3:10-18
Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 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 pruning-hooks 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… Read the whole commentary →