When systems of power collide—whether through arms or policy or economic pressure—those without voice or agency bear the weight. The book of Lamentations speaks from the wreckage of a fallen city, where the writer cries out not with confidence but with raw need: Lord, hear me from the pit. Today’s news offers many such pits: the child killed at sea, the villagers deceived by false peace, the families displaced by climate and conflict, the protester shot during dissent. Lamentations does not promise swift rescue or justice rendered; it simply records the cry itself as an act of witness. Perhaps our calling today is to listen—to acknowledge that the cry has been made, that it echoes, and that God’s silence is not indifference but an invitation to us to become the hearing that the vulnerable desperately need.