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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.” — Joel 3:10 or 4:10 in the Masoretic system. This is the opposite of what Micah says in Micah 4:3 (see below).
Bible verse Isaiah 2:4 written on a wall across the street from the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn ...
Joel 3:10 / 4:10 is a variation of Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3's prophecy, "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks", [27] instead commanding, "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears." [28]
Isaiah 46 is the forty-sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah and is a part of the Nevi'im (books of the Prophets).
[4] [13] [14] [15] The staircase was built and dedicated in 1948 during construction of the U.N. headquarters and has the famous quotation from Isaiah 2:4: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" incised into its wall.
The U.S. Plowshares group was deeply influenced by Catholicism and, in particular, the Catholic left movement of the late 1960s and the Catholic Worker Movement. [3] The Plowshares movement takes its name from the idea of beating swords to ploughshares in the Book of Isaiah:
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"They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Antithesis is also found; here, the second unit directly contrasts with the first, often making the same point from the opposite perspective. From Proverbs 10:1: A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.