The voice in Lamentations speaks not to blame but to witness—to call attention to suffering that might otherwise be passed by. Today’s news holds many such cries: children in a dormitory who will not come home, families waiting in darkness, disease moving faster than institutions can respond, and in the midst of ongoing violence, people simply trying to gather and remember and grieve. The question Lamentations poses is not whether suffering is deserved, but whether we can see it, truly see it, and let it move something in us. In moments when the world seems ordered by competing interests and technical solutions, this ancient lament reminds us that attention itself—the refusal to pass by—is a form of prayer.