² “But who can endure ^(E)the day of His coming?
And ^(F)who can stand when He appears?
For ^(G)He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.
^3 (H)He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And ^[a]purge them as gold and silver,
That they may ^(I)offer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.

⁴ “Then ^(J)the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
Will be ^[b]pleasant to the Lord,
As in the days of old,
As in former years.

⁶⁸ “Blessed^(A) is the Lord God of Israel,
For ^(B)He has visited and redeemed His people,
^69 (C)And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,
^70 (D)As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been ^(E)since the world began,
⁷¹ That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,
^72 (F)To perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,
^73 (G)The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
⁷⁴ To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might ^(H)serve Him without fear,
^75 (I)In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called the ^(J)prophet of the Highest;
For ^(K)you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
⁷⁷ To give ^(L)knowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸ Through the tender mercy of our God,
With which the ^[a]Dayspring from on high ^[b]has visited us;
^79 (M)To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To ^(N)guide our feet into the way of peace.”

^(G)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord;
Make His paths straight.
⁵ Every valley shall be filled
And every mountain and hill brought low;
The crooked places shall be made straight
And the rough ways smooth;
⁶ And ^(H)all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’ ”