Luke 1:68–79

⁶⁸“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

because he has visited to help and has redeemedⁿ his people,

⁶⁹and has raised up a horn of salvation for us

in the house of his servant David,

⁷⁰just as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times—

⁷¹salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us,

⁷²to show mercy to our fathers

and to remember his holy covenant,

⁷³the oath that he swore to Abraham our father,

to grant us ⁷⁴that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies,

could serve him without fear ⁷⁵in holiness and righteousness

before him all our days.

⁷⁶And so you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High,

for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways,

⁷⁷to give knowledge of salvation to his people

by the forgiveness of their sins,

⁷⁸because of the merciful compassion^o of our God

by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high,

⁷⁹to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,

to direct our feet into the way of peace.”