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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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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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