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

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“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,

for he has visited and redeemed his people

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and has raised up a horn of salvation for us

in the house of his servant David,

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

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that we should be saved from our enemies

and from the hand of all who hate us;

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to show the mercy promised to our fathers

and to remember his holy covenant,

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the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

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

might serve him without fear,

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in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

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

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

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to give knowledge of salvation to his people

in the forgiveness of their sins,

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because of the tender mercy of our God,

whereby the sunrise shall visit us[a] from on high

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

to guide our feet into the way of peace.”