Joel 3:10

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁰Beat your plows into swords.
Make spears from your pruning hooks.^[a]
Let the weak man say,
“I am a strong soldier.”

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

Joel 3:10

New International Version

¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks^(A) into spears.^(B)
Let the weakling^(C) say,
“I am strong!”^(D)

¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

New International Version (NIV)