The prophet’s cry in Lamentations invites us to truly see the suffering around us, not to pass by as though it were ordinary. Today’s news speaks to losses both visible and unseen: families displaced from ancestral lands, those caught in zones of conflict while simply trying to recover their dead, communities facing environmental catastrophe, and institutions corroded by the very corruption meant to be guarded against. The verse does not offer swift resolution but rather calls us to witness—to refuse the comfort of looking away—and in that witnessing, to recognize that such sorrows demand our attention and our prayer.