פּירוש אויף ירמיהו 2:5

“Thus said the Lord: What did your fathers find, etc.” [2:5]. What wrong did your fathers see in Me that you served foreign gods from the time that you came to the land of Israel. You did not say, where is God who took us out of Egypt and led them in the wilderness where nothing grew and where no person had ever traveled? From the wilderness I brought you into the land of Israel, into a land that has good fruit. You have defiled this good land with worship of foreign gods.

“Thus says the Lord, what did your fathers find, etc.” [2:5]. Rabbi Isaac said: The verse teaches us that when a person is in the synagogue and the Torah scroll is being read, and he goes out and leaves the people and goes away. The Holy One said: What do you have against Me? What injustice have you seen that you are leaving Me?⁹Yalkut Shimoni, Jeremiah, Remez 265.

It is a great sin for someone to leave the synagogue when the Torah scroll is open. A person leaving the synagogue is like what Jeremiah described and why Israel was punished in his days. There were three who punished Israel at one time. First there was Jeremiah, who preached and punished Israel publicly in the streets. There was also Zephaniah in his times who also punished Israel in all the synagogues. The third one was Huldah, a woman who punished the women. She was also a prophetess and yet Israel did not want to be pious.¹⁰Pesikta Rabbati, piska 26.