64. And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he was speaking, praising Elohim.
65. And fear came on all those dwelling around them, and all these matters were spoken of in all the hill country of Yehuḏah.
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,
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.