Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Is it...: or, It is nothing pass by: Heb. pass by the way?
Lamentations 1:12 (KJV)
The prophet’s cry in Lamentations speaks to a moment when the costs of conflict have become too heavy to ignore—when the wounds are visible to anyone willing to look. Today’s news carries the weight of compounding sorrows: soldiers questioning decisions made for them, aid workers quarantined and displaced, infrastructure struck and civilians caught in the wreckage, and vulnerable populations losing support at the moment they need it most. The passage does not demand answers or assign blame; it simply asks us to witness what is happening, to acknowledge that real people are bearing real suffering, and to ask ourselves whether we have truly seen it.
What prompted this
As military tensions escalate across multiple regions and aid commitments fracture, the human toll of these decisions—on soldiers, aid workers, civilians, and the vulnerable—accumulates quietly beneath the headlines.
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