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²³Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Psalm 99

¹The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
²The Lord is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
³Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
⁴The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
⁵Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
⁶Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
⁷He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
⁸Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
⁹Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

⁴Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
⁵Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
⁶Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
⁷But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
⁸Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
⁹Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
¹⁰See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
¹⁷Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
¹⁸For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
¹⁹And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

⁵⁷Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
⁵⁸And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
⁵⁹And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
⁶⁰And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.
⁶¹And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
⁶²And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
⁶³And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.
⁶⁴And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.
⁶⁵And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
⁶⁶And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
⁶⁷And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
⁶⁹And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
⁷⁰As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
⁷¹That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
⁷²To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
⁷³The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
⁷⁴That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
⁷⁷To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
⁷⁹To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
⁸⁰And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.