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10 Beat your plows into swords.
    Make spears from your pruning hooks.[a]
Let the weak man say,
    “I am a strong soldier.”
11 All you nations, hurry!
    Come together in that place.
    Lord, bring your strong soldiers.
12 Wake up, nations!
    Come to Jehoshaphat Valley.
There I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:10 pruning hooks These tools were used to prune (cut) branches of trees. Read Isa. 2:4.

10 Beat your plowshares into swords
    and your pruning hooks(A) into spears.(B)
Let the weakling(C) say,
    “I am strong!”(D)
11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side,
    and assemble(E) there.

Bring down your warriors,(F) Lord!

12 “Let the nations be roused;
    let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat,(G)
for there I will sit
    to judge(H) all the nations on every side.

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