Deuteronomy 28:43

43 The foreigners who live among you will get stronger and stronger, and you will get weaker and weaker.

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 have sons and daughters, but you will not be able to keep them, because they will be taken captive.

42 Locusts will destroy all your trees and crops.

43 The foreigners who live among you will get stronger and stronger, and you will get weaker and weaker.

44 Foreigners will lend money to you, but you will not be able to lend to them. They will be like the head, and you will be like the tail.

45 All these curses will come upon you. They will chase you and catch you and destroy you, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and laws he gave you.