Luke 1:46-79

⁴⁶And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,

⁴⁷And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

⁴⁸Because He looked upon the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

⁴⁹For He that is mighty has done great things for me, And holy is His name.

⁵⁰And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.

⁵¹He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

⁵²He has overthrown the mighty from their thrones, And exalted the lowly.

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty.

⁵⁴He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,

⁵⁵As He spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed forever.”

⁵⁶And Mary remained with her about three months, and she returned to her house.

⁵⁷Now Elizabeth's full time came for her to be delivered, and she bore a son.

⁵⁸And when her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her.

⁵⁹Now it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they started to call him by the name of his father, Zacharias.

⁶⁰His mother answered and said, “No; he shall be called John.”

⁶¹But they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”

⁶²So they made signs to his father about what he wished him to be called.

⁶³And asking for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, “His name is John.” And they all marveled.

⁶⁴Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he started to speak, praising God.

⁶⁵Then fear came on all who lived around them; and all these things were being talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

⁶⁶And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, “What kind of child will this be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he 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, Who have been since the world began,

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 face of the Lord To prepare His ways,

⁷⁷To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,

⁷⁸Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

⁷⁹To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”