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The sojourner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
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A Painful Reversal
Commentators explain that this curse is a complete reversal of God's intended blessing. Instead of being leaders who lend to others, disobedient Israel would become subservient to the foreigners living among them. As John Calvin notes, this shift from being the lender to the borrower would be a clear and painful sign that they had fallen from God's favor.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
16th Century
Protestant
The stranger that is within you shall get up above you. This also was a clear sign of God’s wrath, that the foreigners who lived in the la…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high In wealth and ri…
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