the Third Week after Easter
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Joel 3:10
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Beat your plows into swordsand your pruning knives into spears.Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong."
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak man say, "I am a warrior."
Make swords from your plows, and make spears from your hooks for trimming trees. Let even the weak person say, "I am a soldier."
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am strong!"
Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."
Beat your plowshares into swordsAnd your pruning hooks into spears;Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong!'
Make swords out of plows and spears out of garden tools. Strengthen every weakling."
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.
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
Beat your plows into swords. Make spears from your pruning hooks. Let the weak man say, "I am a strong soldier."
Beat your plowshares into swords and your sickles into spears. Let the weak say, I am a mighty man.
Hammer the points of your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.
Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, ‘I am a mighty warrior!'
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
[4:10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'
Beate your plowe shares into swords, and your pruning hookes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong.
Breake your plowe shares into swordes, and your sithes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong.
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am strong."
Beete ye togydere youre plowis in to swerdis, and youre mattokkis in to speeris; a sijk man seie, that Y am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!'
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am strong."'
Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
Beat your plows into swords, and your vine hooks into spears. Let the weak say, "I am a powerful soldier."
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."
Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears, - as for the weak, let him say, mighty, I am.
Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I [am] mighty.'
Make you sweardes of youre ploweshares, and speares of youre syckles & sythes. Let ye weake man saye: I am stronge.
Contextual Overview
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
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as 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. âIn His days,â foretold Solomon, âshall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endurethâ Psalms 72:7. And another, âHe maketh thy borders peaceâ Psalms 147:14. Peace within with God flows forth in peace with man. âRighteousness and peace kissed each otherâ 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 manâs 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.
