The psalmist calls out from a place where the vulnerable are forgotten and those with power act as though no reckoning will come. Today’s news carries echoes of this ancient cry—trains full of ordinary travelers caught in system failures, children and women in harm’s way, journalists silenced, disease spreading where resources are scarce. The psalm does not answer why such suffering persists, but it insists on something harder: that the helpless are seen, that their commitment to the divine is itself a form of resistance, and that the helper of the fatherless remains attentive even when the world appears indifferent. To read these words today is to grieve what we see, and to ask whether we, who have more power than those in the headlines, are willing to remember them.