66. All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.
67. His father, Zechariah, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
68. “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,for he has visited and redeemed his people;
69. and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
70. (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
71. salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
72. to show mercy towards our fathers,to remember his holy covenant,
73. the oath which he swore to Abraham, our father,
74. to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,should serve him without fear,
75. In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.