Joel 3:10 (GNV)

Passage

Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

Nearby Context

Joel 3:8 And I will send your sonnes and your daughters into the hande of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people farre off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Joel 3:9 Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men: let all the men of warre drawe neere and come vp.

Joel 3:10 Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

Joel 3:11 Assemble your selues, and come all yee heathen and gather your selues together round about: there shall the Lord cast downe the mightie men.

Joel 3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come vp to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen round about.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "breake", "plowshares", "swords", "sithes", "speares", "weake", and "strong". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "breake" and "plowshares", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "Publish this among the Gentiles prepare warre..." into verse 11's "Assemble your selues and come all yee...", so "breake" and "plowshares" belong inside that flow. In Joel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "breake" and "plowshares" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.