Luke 1:67-79

⁶⁷Now his father Zacharias was filled with Holy Spirit and prophesied saying:

⁶⁸“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and provided redemption for His people;

⁶⁹and has raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of His servant David

⁷⁰—just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from antiquity—

⁷¹deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us;

⁷²to use mercy with our fathers, even to remember His Holy covenant,

⁷³the oath that He swore to our father Abraham;

⁷⁴to grant to us (having been rescued from the hand of our enemies) to serve Him without fear,

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

⁷⁶And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, because you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

⁷⁷to give a knowledge of salvation to His people by the forgiveness of their sins,

⁷⁸through the merciful compassions of our God, with which the divine Dawn has contemplated us,

⁷⁹to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”