When institutions fail the defenseless—whether through disproportionate force, forced recruitment, disease left unchecked, or accountability denied—we are invited not to despair but to notice what the Psalmist knew: that God hears the desire of the humble, and that judgment belongs ultimately not to human power but to divine mercy. The hunger for accountability we see across today’s news, even when imperfectly pursued, reflects something true about justice itself. Yet we are also called to ask whether our own complicity in these systems has clouded our ability to hear the cry of the oppressed, and whether genuine justice requires not vindication but repentance and repair.