3:10a Beat your plowshares into swords

Hammer/Pound (plur.) your plowshares into swords
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Form/Forge (plur.) swords from your iron/metal plows.
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Take your (plur.) iron digging tools and make fighting knives ⌊from them⌋ .

3:10b and your pruning hooks into spears.

and ⌊hammer/pound (plur.) ⌋ your pruning knives into spears.
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⌊Form/Forge (plur.) ⌋ spears from your gardening knives.
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⌊Take (plur.) ⌋ your trimming/vine knives and make (plur.) them into lances.

3:10c Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

You weak ones, each of you must say, ‘I am a great/mighty warrior!’
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You weakling/coward, tell yourself that you are strong ⌊and able to fight⌋ !
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Even the feeble/skinny men must think themselves mighty ⌊in battle⌋ .

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