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To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant,
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The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
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To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,
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In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
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And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
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To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,
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Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;
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To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace."
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So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.