Note 2 — ISAIAH. (continued 10)
Reading edition
Verse 8, In measure. Rather, with measure by measure: Heb. “with seah-seah,” a seah, being the third part of an ephah, was a moderate measure. With forbearance and graduated severity, dealing out punishment in carefully adjusted quantities, and at successive times, “not suffering Thy whole displeasure to arise,” “correcting with judgment, not in anger” (Jer. x. 24, xxx. 11).—Kay.