Deuteronomy 28:43

43 "The foreigner living with you will rise higher and higher while you sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:43 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:43

The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee
very high
In wealth and riches, in power and authority, in honour and dignity. This Manasseh Ben Israel ^F18 interprets of the Samaritans, whom the king of Assyria drove out of Samaria, and the neighbouring places; but the design of the expression is to show how mean and abject they should be in another country; that even one who had been a stranger or proselyte of the gate, when in their own country, should now be vastly above them:

and thou shall come down, very low;
into a very mean condition, to be in great subjection, a vassal and a slave; see ( Psalms 106:41 Psalms 106:42 ) ; and much more when reduced by the Romans, and sent to the mines in Egypt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 De Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 128.

Deuteronomy 28:43 In-Context

41 You will father sons and daughters, but they won't belong to you, because they will go into captivity.

42 The bugs will inherit all your trees and the produce of your land.

43 "The foreigner living with you will rise higher and higher while you sink lower and lower.

44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you the tail.

45 "All these curses will come on you, pursuing you and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you didn't pay attention to what ADONAI your God said, observing his mitzvot and regulations that he gave you.