Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
He afterwards adds, Beat your plowshares into swords. When Isaiah and Micah prophesied of the kingdom of Christ, they said, ‘Beat your swords into pruninghooks, and your spears into plowshares’, (Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3.) This sentence is now inverted by Joel.
This call to the nations to prepare war is spoken ironically: let all forces confederate against God if they dare. They are summoned to the battle of that great day when God shall judge the earth, gathering all nations to their ruin.
AI summary
Commenting on Joel 3:9-17
Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears,.... Let not only soldiers, and such as have been trained up in military discipline, appear in the field on this occasion; but let husbandmen and vinedressers leave their fields and vineyards, and turn their instruments of husbandry and vinedressing into weapons of war; let them not plead want of armour, but convert these to...