Deuteronomy 28:43

43 The straungers that are amonge you shall clyme aboue the vpp an hye, ad thou shalt come doune beneth alowe.

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 Thou shalt get sonnes ad doughters, but shalt not haue them: for they shalbe caried awaye captyue.

42 All thy trees and frute of thy londe shalbe marred with blastynge.

43 The straungers that are amonge you shall clyme aboue the vpp an hye, ad thou shalt come doune beneth alowe.

44 He shall lende the ad thou shalt not lende him, he shalbe before ad thou behynde.

45 Moreouer all these curses shall come vppo the and shall folowe the and ouertake the, tyll thou be destroyed: because thou herkenedest not vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe his comaundmetes ad ordinaunces whiche he comauded the,