Luke 1:67–79

⁶⁷And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,

for he has visited and redeemed his people,

⁶⁹and has raised up a horn of salvation for us

in the house of his servant David,

⁷⁰as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,

⁷¹that we should be saved from our enemies,

and from the hand of all who hate us;

⁷²to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,

and to remember his holy covenant,

⁷³the oath which he swore to our father Abraham, ⁷⁴to grant us

that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,

might serve him without fear,

⁷⁵in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

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

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

⁷⁷to give knowledge of salvation to his people

in the forgiveness of their sins,

⁷⁸through the tender mercy of our God,

when the day shall dawn upon us from on high

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

to guide our feet into the way of peace.”