Joel 3:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling 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.

English Standard Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

Berean Study Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

New American Standard Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak man say, “I am a warrior.”

NASB 1995
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."

NASB 1977
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”

Amplified Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, “I am strong!”

Christian Standard Bible
Beat your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Beat your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say, "I am a warrior."

Contemporary English Version
Make swords out of plows and spears out of garden tools. Strengthen every weakling."

Good News Translation
Hammer the points of your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Hammer your plowblades into swords and your pruning shears into spears. Weaklings should say that they are warriors.

International Standard Version
Beat your plow blades into swords, and your pruning knives into spears! Let the frail say, "I am strong!"

NET Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, 'I too am a warrior!'
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

New King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”

King James 2000 Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

New Heart English Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

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

American King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

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

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

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

English Revised Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks 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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Breake your plowe shares into swordes, and your sithes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Make you sweardes of youre ploweshares, and speares of youre syckles & sythes. Let ye weake man saye: I am stronge.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Beat your plowshares to swords, "" And your pruning-hooks to javelins, "" Let the weak say, “I [am] mighty.”

Young's Literal Translation
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, 'I am mighty.'

Smith's Literal Translation
Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Cut your ploughs into swords and your hoes into spears. Let the weak say, ‘For I am strong.’

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Beat the blades of your ploughs into swords and your sickles into spears, and he who is weak will say, “I am a mighty man!”

Lamsa Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords and your sickles into spears. Let the weak say, I am a mighty man.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning-hooks into spears; Let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
















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