Jeremiah 7:13

And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

Ver. 13. And now, because ye have done.] Worthily are they made examples to others, that will not take example by others; that will not aliena frui insania, make benefit of other men's miseries.

Rising early.] As good husbands use to do; and as Plutarch reporteth of the Persian kings, that they had an officer to call them up betimes, and to mind them of their business.