Parallel Bible results for "Luke 1:64-74"

Luke 1:64-74

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64 Surprise followed surprise - Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God!
64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God.
65 A deep, reverential fear settled over the neighborhood, and in all that Judean hill country people talked about nothing else.
65 All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things.
66 Everyone who heard about it took it to heart, wondering, "What will become of this child? Clearly, God has his hand in this."
66 Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.
67 Then Zachariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied,
67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:
68 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he came and set his people free.
68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
69 He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives, and in the very house of David his servant,
69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
70 Just as he promised long ago through the preaching of his holy prophets:
70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),
71 Deliverance from our enemies and every hateful hand;
71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us—
72 Mercy to our fathers, as he remembers to do what he said he'd do,
72 to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant,
73 What he swore to our father Abraham -
73 the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
74 a clean rescue from the enemy camp, So we can worship him without a care in the world,
74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear
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