Bible verse
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:43 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 28.
39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
KJV
The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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