43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
43 The foreigner who lives among you will climb the ladder, higher and higher, while you go deeper and deeper into the hole.
43 The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
43 "The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:43
Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44
(Read Deuteronomy 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.