예레미야애가 2:9 해설: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Rashi

“Sunk” [2:9]. The gates of the Temple have sunk into the ground. No enemy could touch them. The doors were worthy of this because they raised themselves when King David brought the Tablets into the Temple. Some sages say that because King David made the doors himself, the enemies could not vanquish the doors and they sank into the ground.¹⁶Lamentations Rabbah, 2.13. See also, B. Shabbat, 30a. He caused them to lose and broke her bolts, her king and her nobles under the nations and they did not have someone who could decide the laws of the Torah and they did not have a prophet among them.

Her gates sank into the ground. The Midrash Aggadah [states], that because they [i.e., the gates] imparted honor to the Ark, as it is stated, “raise up your heads O gates,”²⁹Tehilim 24:9. therefore no one had any power over them, and they sank into the ground. [But] our Rabbis said that they were Dovid’s handiwork, therefore, the enemies had no power over them.³⁰Maseches Sotah 9a.

Without guidance. There is no one among them to give instructions.