The voice of Lamentations is not one that rushes to comfort or explanation, but one that insists we witness suffering without turning away. Today’s news carries many such cries—from those caught in violence they did not choose, from those displaced by forces beyond their control, from the young pressed into service they never sought. The verse does not promise resolution or swift justice, but rather a summons: to see, to acknowledge, to let the reality of another’s anguish touch us rather than remain distant observers. In a world where the vulnerable so often go unseen, there is something sacred in the refusal to look away.