Isaiah 27:8

"In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind."

This verse is ambiguous. Cheyne stated that `in measure' here or `in exact measure' means, "dealing out punishment in carefully adjusted quantities";[13] The Hebrew word used for dry measure here is "`[~seah],' meaning one-third of an ephah."[14] This surely reminds us of the judgments connected with the trumpets in Revelation 8:7,8,10, where we read that only "one third" was allowed in the various destructions prophesied.

In this light, we find it difficult to believe that only God's judgments of Northern Israel are in view here. It appears to us that this is simply a promise of restraint on God's part in those judgments poured out on mankind in general during the Messianic age, that clearly being the teaching in the great judgment passages of the Apocalypse.