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 Psalms 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.