The voice in Lamentations speaks from the rubble of loss, calling out to those who walk past suffering as though it were ordinary. Today’s news carries many such voices—those caught in escalating violence, those fleeing conflict, those watching disease advance across borders, those accused without evidence and cast out. We are invited not to explain or justify these griefs, but to hear them; not to look away, but to bear witness to what happens when systems fail the vulnerable. The question posed in this verse remains open: Will we see? Will we recognize the sorrow of those who have no platforms, no nations to protect them, no one to call them home?