Verse Comparison: Joel 3:10
American Standard Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Amplified® Bible
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong [a warrior]!
Contemporary English Version
Make swords out of plows and spears out of garden tools. Strengthen every weakling."
Darby English Version
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
Good News Bible
Hammer the points of your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.
King James Version
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks 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 say, "I am a mighty man."
New International Version
Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling 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."
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I feel like a mighty man."
Revised Standard Version
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
Young's Literal Translation
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I `am' mighty.'
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