On days when headlines splinter across so many fronts—elections and ceasefires, humanitarian crises and acts of violence—it is easy to feel the weight of a world that has lost its moral compass. The psalmist speaks to those who have learned to cry out not in anger but in humility, knowing their powerlessness before injustice. The promise is not immediate resolution or the vindication we might demand, but rather that the Lord hears the longing of the afflicted and turns his attention toward those whom the powerful have forgotten. Perhaps what we are invited to do today is listen for those cries ourselves, and ask where our own mercy has grown thin.