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,
77. to give knowledge of deliverance to His people, by the forgiveness of their sins,
78. through the tender compassion of our Elohim, with which the daybreak from on high has looked upon us,
79. to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
80. And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts until the day of showing Himself openly to Yisra’ĕl.