And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they [a]shall send them to the Sabeans, to a people far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.

Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare war, wake up the mighty men: let all the men of war draw near and come up.

10 [b]Break your plowshares into swords, and your scythes into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:8 For afterward God sold them by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the great, for the love he bare to his people, and thereby they were comforted, as though the price had been theirs.
  2. Joel 3:10 When I shall execute my judgments against mine enemies, I will cause everyone to be ready, and to prepare their weapons to destroy one another for my Church’s sake.

I will sell your sons(A) and daughters to the people of Judah,(B) and they will sell them to the Sabeans,(C) a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.(D)

Proclaim this among the nations:
    Prepare for war!(E)
Rouse the warriors!(F)
    Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords
    and your pruning hooks(G) into spears.(H)
Let the weakling(I) say,
    “I am strong!”(J)

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