The Scriptures 1998

Luke 1:66-76 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

66. And all who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, “What then shall this child be?” And the hand of יהוה was with him.

67. And Zeḵaryah, his father, was filled with the Set-apart Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

68. “Blessed be יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, for He did look upon and worked redemption for His people,

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

70. as He spoke by the mouth of His set-apart prophets, from of old –

71. deliverance from our enemies and from the hand of all those hating us,

72. to show compassion toward our fathers and to remember His set-apart covenant,

73. an oath which He swore to our father Aḇraham:

74. to give to us, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, to serve Him without fear,

75. in set-apartness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

76. “And you, child, shall be called prophet of the Most High, for you shall go before the face of יהוה to prepare His ways,