001:047 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, 001:048 for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. 001:049 For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name. 001:050 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him. 001:051 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. 001:052 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly. 001:053 He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty. 001:054 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, 001:055 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever." 001:056 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house. 001:057 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son. 001:058 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her. 001:059 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father. 001:060 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John." 001:061 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." 001:062 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. 001:063 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled. 001:064 His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God. 001:065 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. 001:066 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. 001:067 His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, 001:068 "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and worked redemption for his people; 001:069 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 001:070 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old), 001:071 salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us; 001:072 to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, 001:073 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father, 001:074 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, 001:075 In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. 001:076 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,