Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant...
that he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies
might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him,
all the days of our life.
[T]he dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Taken from the Gospel According to Luke, chapter one.
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