Anonymous ID: d2947f July 26, 2022, 1 p.m. No.16829928   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0075 >>0127

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Psalm 74 (a lament of the oppressed)

 

1 O God, why have You cast us off forever?
 Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?


2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.


3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.


4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
They set up their banners for signs.


5 They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.


6 And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.


7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.

8 They said in their hearts,
“Let us [b]destroy them altogether.”
They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

9 We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet;
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.


10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach?
Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?


11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.


12 For God is my King from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.


13 You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.


14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 You broke open the fountain and the flood;
You dried up mighty rivers.


16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun.


17 You have set all the borders of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord,
And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.


19 Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.


20 Have respect to the covenant;
For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.


21 Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.

22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.

23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually. (NKJV)

 

Psalm 121 (a song of ascents)

 

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
from where will my help come?


2 My help comes from the Lord,
 who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot be moved;
 he who keeps you will not slumber.


4 He who keeps Israel
 will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is your keeper;
 the Lord is your shade at your right hand.


6 The sun shall not strike you by day
 nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
 he will keep your life.


8 The Lord will keep
 your going out and your coming in
 from this time on and forevermore. (NRSV)

 

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Anonymous ID: d2947f July 26, 2022, 1:01 p.m. No.16830002   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0177 >>0238 >>0285

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/16-kurdish-journalists-arrested-in-turkey-for-terrorism

 

16 Kurdish journalists arrested in Turkey for "terrorism"

 

More than a dozen Turkish journalists have been imprisoned Thursday by court order for allegedly belonging to terrorist organizations in Southeastern Turkey. The journalists have been unlawfully detained, alongside others, for "spreading terrorist propaganda" since June 8 according to Turkish authorities.

 

Originally 20 journalists were detained June 8 in Diyarbakir, a city with a Kurdish majority population, for working at Kurdish media outlets. According to police sources, the police department had investigated the "press committee" of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PPK) group.

 

Serdar Altan, co-chairman of the Dicle Firat Journalists' Association, Jin News CEO Safiye Alagas, and Mezopotamya news agency editor Aziz Oruc were among those jailed. While 16 journalists were imprisoned, the rest were set free following the investigative decisions.

 

Non-governmental groups frequently decry the loss of journalistic freedom in Turkey, which is ranked 149th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' 2022 Press Freedom Index.

 

Moreover, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Peoples' Democratic Party, the third-largest party within the Turkish parliament, of being the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

 

Since 2016, hundreds of the Peoples' Democratic Party members have been arrested, including leader Selahattin DemirtaĹź.