Well, notwithstanding the gloomy pictures from the Middle East, Darfur, Iraq, elsewhere, there is a longer term trend that does represent some good news.

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But there is one glimmer of hope.

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Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Let my prayer come before thee incline thine ear unto my cry

I have not departed from thy judgments for thou hast taught me.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

My son, attend to my words incline thine ear unto my sayings.

I actually wrote, OMG, hopefully for the last time in public ever.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding

neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

But the lesson of the last two decades is that attacks stop, and intifadas do not start, when there is a prospect of peace and that, when there is no such prospect, Palestinian militancy is uncontainable.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

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I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me for I am poor and needy.

Amid all the gloom and doom of this week's edition, there is some light ahead.

So, the good news of the last decade is just a glimmer of hope.

Hisham of Al Miraat The Moroccan Mirror laments the Palestinian situation but sees hope

a glimmer of hope appeared with Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

PARIS To find a glimmer of hope on the Israel Palestine question has become difficult, if not impossible.

Other citizens couldn't hide their frustration with the government, the current situation, and the increasing Salafi phenomena.

Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble incline thine ear unto me in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Israel is, of course, entitled to defend itself from rocket attacks. But the lesson of the last two decades is that attacks stop, and intifadas do not start, when there is a prospect of peace and that, when there is no such prospect, Palestinian militancy is uncontainable.

So I have hope that in the future, the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized, who said, My philosophy No pain, no pain.

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God.

LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear open, LORD, thine eyes, and see and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

John Halloway, writing for the Guardian, described Blockupy as a glimmer of hope in times of austerity , and argued that it would bring momentum to explosions of creative anger that will follow .

She studied broadcast journalism, hoping to become a television anchor, and worked as a model for Venus Swimwear and Hawaiian Tropic.

One ray of hope is that moderate Arab leaders, including Egypt's foreign minister, have openly blamed Hamas for the current Gazan predicament.

But we are where we are. A glimmer of hope is Europe s willingness to use the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) imaginatively as equity or first loss cover.

When I enter into dialogue, I really hope that the other side would pick up my points of view, that I would impress upon them my opinions and my values.

And then, once I deal with the context, I then try to make a place that's comfortable and private and fairly serene, as I hope you'll find that slide on the right.