John Trapp on Jeremiah 21:12

Ver. 12. O houſe of David] But much degenerated from the piety of David. So Mic. 2.7. O thou that art named the houſe of Jacob —are theſe his doings, &c. See the Notes there. To be a degenerate plant of ſo noble a vine, is no ſmall diſcommendation.

Thus ſaith the Lord] After that the Court had ſent to him, he is ſent to the Court with theſe Inſtructions.

Execute juſtice in the morning] As David your Progenitour and pattern did, Pſal. 101.8. Be up and at it betime, and make quick diſpatch of cauſes, that poor men may go home about their buſineſſes, who have other things to do beſides going to Law. It is a lamentable thing that a ſuit ſhould depend ten or twenty years in ſome Courts,Oecolamp. quo ſaturentur avariſſimi rabulae, omnia bona pauperum exugentes, through the avarice of ſome Pleaders, to the utter undoing of their poor Clients. This made one ſuch (when he was perſwaded to patience by the example of Job) to reply,Mane i. e. Maturè. What do ye tell me of Job? Job never had any ſuits in Chancery. Jethro adviſeth Moſes, Exod. 18. to diſmſſe thoſe timely, whom he cannot diſpatch preſently.