Deuteronomy 28:43

The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall get up above thee higher and higher; but thou shalt come down lower and lower;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

In Context

42All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the cricket strip bare.

44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall become the head, and thou shalt become the tail.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:13And the Lord will constitute thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt only be uppermost, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou wilt hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day to observe and to do;

Judges 2:11And the children of Israel did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and served the Be'alim:

Judges 10:7And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of 'Ammon.

Judges 15:11Thereupon went three thousand men of Judah down to the cleft of the rock 'Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, So that the Hebrews shall not make themselves swords or spears.

2 Kings 17:23Until that the Lord removed Israel out of his presence, as he had spoken by means of all his servants the prophets; and Israel was led away as exiles out of their own land to Assyria even until this day.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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