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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues the speech he began in [Joel 2:25](../02/24.md), promising good things for the people of Israel. Here he begins an ironic call to the nations to prepare for a war in which Yahweh will completely destroy the nations. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]])
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# rouse the mighty men
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"make the mighty men ready for action"
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# Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears
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These two phrases share similar meanings. Both of them instruct the people to turn their farming tools into weapons. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# plowshares
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tools that are used to break up the soil in order to plant crops
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# pruning knives
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knives that are used to cut off small branches |