John Trapp on Isaiah 27:8

Ver. 8. In meaſure] Heb. Modio, i. e. exigua menſura, in a ſmall meaſure,By peck-peck. and as his people are able to bear, 1 Cor. 10.13. ad emendationem, non ad internecionem.

When it ſhooteth forth] Or, in the bunches; not at the root, as God ſmiteth at a wicked man reſolving to have him down. See here his different dealing with his own and others. Upon his children he doth but ſprinkle a parcel of his wrath, ſome few ſparks of his diſpleaſure: but the wicked he utterly conſumeth and burneth up with the fire of his indignation, Iſa. 42.25. & 66.15.

Thou wilt debate with it] Dijudicabis thou wilt put a difference, or diſcern betwixt the righteous and the wicked, Mal. 3.18. D Goodw. flagella tantum quaedam decutiuntur. Scultet.

He ſtayeth his rough wind, &c.] i. e. Such afflictions as would ſhake his plants too much, or quite blow them down. But he letteth out of his treaſury, even He who holdeth the winds in his fiſt) ſuch a wind as ſhall make them fruitful, and blow away their unkindly bloſſoms and leaves.

In the day of the Eaſt-wind] That boiſterous and blaſting and bluſtering wind. Hinc Euroclydon, Acts 27.14.