Luke 1:68–79

⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people, ⁶⁹and raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of David his servant; ⁷⁰as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began; ⁷¹deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us; ⁷²to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant, ⁷³the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear ⁷⁵in piety and righteousness before him all our days. ⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways; ⁷⁷to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by the remission of their sins ⁷⁸on account of the bowels of mercy of our God; wherein the dayspring from on high has visited us, ⁷⁹to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.