Zechariah's Song
His father, Zacharias, was filled
with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
"Blessed be the
Lord, the God of Israel,
for he has visited and worked redemption for his people;
and has raised up a
horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
(as he spoke by the
mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
salvation from our
enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
to show mercy towards
our fathers,
to remember his holy covenant,
the oath which he
spoke to Abraham, our father,
to grant to us that
we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
should serve him without fear,
In holiness and
righteousness before him all the days of our life.
And you, child, will
be called a prophet of the Most High,
for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,
to give knowledge of
salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
because of the tender
mercy of our God,
whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
to shine on those who
sit in darkness and the shadow of death;
to guide our feet into the way of peace."
The child was growing,
and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his
public appearance to Israel.
Luke 1:67-80
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