Joel 3:8-10

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⁸I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. Then they will sell them to the faraway Sabeans.^[a]” This is what the Lord said.

Prepare for War

⁹Announce this among the nations:
    Prepare for war!
Wake up the strong men!
    Let all the men of war come near.
    Let them come up!
¹⁰Beat your plows into swords.
    Make spears from your pruning hooks.^[b]
Let the weak man say,
    “I am a strong soldier.”

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Footnotes

Joel 3:8 Sabeans A group of people from the Arabian Desert.
Joel 3:10 pruning hooks These tools were used to prune (cut) branches of trees. Read Isa. 2:4.