Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:6.

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    They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
    —Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.

    The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)

    A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to
    dance;
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. III, 4)