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And his father Zacharias was filled of the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He visited and worked redemption for His people.

And He raised up a Horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David;

even as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the age before :

Salvation from ones hostile to us, and from the hand of all the ones hostile to us,

to execute mercy with our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant,

the oath which He swore to our father Abraham,

to give to us, that we being delivered out of the hand of those hostile to us, in order to serve Him without fear,

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

And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, Mal. 3:1

to give a knowledge of salvation to His people by remission of their sins,

through the tender heart of mercy of our God, in which the Dayspring from on high will visit us,

to appear to those sitting in darkness and in shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace. Isa. 9:2

And the child grew, and became strong in spirit. And he was in deserted places until the day of his showing to Israel.