Deuteronomy 28:43
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New International Version (©2011)
The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The foreigner in your midst will be elevated higher and higher over you, while you are brought low little by little.

NET Bible (©2006)
The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The [standard of living for the] foreigners who live among you will rise higher and higher, while your [standard of living] will sink lower and lower.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The stranger that is among you shall rise up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.

American King James Version
The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.

American Standard Version
The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.

Darby Bible Translation
The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.

English Revised Version
The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.

Webster's Bible Translation
The stranger that is within thee shall rise above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

World English Bible
The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.

Young's Literal Translation
the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 43, 44. - (Cf. vers. 12, 13.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 (r) 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 Psalm 106:41; and much more when reduced by the Romans, and sent to the mines in Egypt.

(r) De Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 128.

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The Curses of Disobedience
…42All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume. 43The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high; and you shall come down very low. 44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. …

Deuteronomy 28:13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
Judges 6:6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the LORD for help.
Judges 15:11 Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?" He answered, "I merely did to them what they did to me."
Psalm 79:8 Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Lamentations 2:17 The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.