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There I, the LORD, will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/joel/3-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/joel/3-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/joel/3-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/joel/1.htm">Joel</a> > <a href="/gntd/joel/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joel/3-11.htm" title="Joel 3:11">◄</a> Joel 3:12 <a href="../joel/3-13.htm" title="Joel 3:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/joel/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/joel/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"The nations must get ready and come to the Valley of Judgment. There I, the LORD, will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/joel/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the neighboring nations.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/joel/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You must come now to Judgment Valley, where the LORD will judge the surrounding nations. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/joel/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Let the nations rouse themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit in judgment upon all the neighboring nations. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/joel/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.</p><p class="hdg">valley.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/3-2.htm">Joel 3:2,14</a> I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/20-26.htm">2 Chronicles 20:26</a> And on the fourth day they were assembled in the valley of Blessing: for there they blessed the Lord, and therefore they called that place the valley of Blessing until this day.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/39-11.htm">Ezekiel 39:11</a> And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/14-4.htm">Zechariah 14:4</a> And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south.</p><p class="hdg">for</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/2-8.htm">Psalm 2:8,9</a> Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/7-6.htm">Psalm 7:6</a> Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/76-8.htm">Psalm 76:8,9</a> Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/96-13.htm">Psalm 96:13</a> before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/98-9.htm">Psalm 98:9</a> At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/110-5.htm">Psalm 110:5,6</a> The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/2-4.htm">Isaiah 2:4</a> And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/3-13.htm">Isaiah 3:13</a> The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/30-3.htm">Ezekiel 30:3</a> For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/4-3.htm">Micah 4:3</a> And many nations shall come in haste, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/19-11.htm">Revelation 19:11</a> And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he judge and fight.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/joel/3.htm">The LORD Judges the Nations</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.</span><span class="reftext">13</span>Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/7-6.htm">Psalm 7:6</a></span><br />Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/96-13.htm">Psalm 96:13</a></span><br />before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/98-9.htm">Psalm 98:9</a></span><br />At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/110-6.htm">Psalm 110:6</a></span><br />He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/2-4.htm">Isaiah 2:4</a></span><br />And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/3-13.htm">Isaiah 3:13</a></span><br />The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../joel/3-2.htm">Joel 3:2</a></span><br />I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../joel/3-14.htm">Joel 3:14</a></span><br />Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/daniel/11-13.htm">Advance</a> <a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Arouse</a> <a href="/hosea/11-8.htm">Aroused</a> <a href="/joel/3-9.htm">Awake</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-6.htm">Awakened</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-14.htm">Bestir</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/joel/3-2.htm">Jehoshaphat</a> <a href="/joel/3-2.htm">Jehosh'aphat</a> <a href="/hosea/5-2.htm">Judge</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Round</a> <a href="/joel/3-9.htm">Rouse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-6.htm">Roused</a> <a href="/daniel/7-26.htm">Seated</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Side</a> <a href="/hosea/14-7.htm">Sit</a> <a href="/daniel/11-25.htm">Stirred</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Surrounding</a> <a href="/joel/2-9.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/joel/3-2.htm">Valley</a> <a href="/joel/3-9.htm">Wake</a> <a href="/luke/9-32.htm">Wakened</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/habakkuk/1-9.htm">Advance</a> <a href="/romans/11-11.htm">Arouse</a> <a href="/zechariah/2-13.htm">Aroused</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-7.htm">Awake</a> <a href="/zechariah/4-1.htm">Awakened</a> <a href="/2_samuel/5-24.htm">Bestir</a> <a href="/amos/9-12.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/matthew/1-8.htm">Jehoshaphat</a> <a href="/matthew/1-8.htm">Jehosh'aphat</a> <a href="/amos/2-3.htm">Judge</a> <a href="/amos/6-1.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/amos/3-11.htm">Round</a> <a href="/matthew/17-7.htm">Rouse</a> <a href="/zechariah/2-13.htm">Roused</a> <a href="/amos/1-8.htm">Seated</a> <a href="/amos/3-11.htm">Side</a> <a href="/amos/3-12.htm">Sit</a> <a href="/amos/8-8.htm">Stirred</a> <a href="/amos/3-11.htm">Surrounding</a> <a href="/amos/2-8.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/joel/3-14.htm">Valley</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-7.htm">Wake</a> <a href="/zechariah/4-1.htm">Wakened</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: advance all And aroused be come every for I into Jehoshaphat judge Let nations of on roused side sit surrounding the them there to up Valley will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/joel/3-12.htm">OT Prophets: Joel 3:12 Let the nations arouse themselves and come (Jl Joe.) 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