Luke 1:25
Good News Translation
"Now at last the Lord has helped me," she said. "He has taken away my public disgrace!"

New Revised Standard Version
“This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked favorably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.”

Contemporary English Version
"What the Lord has done for me will keep people from looking down on me."

New American Bible
“So has the Lord done for me at a time when he has seen fit to take away my disgrace before others.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.

hath.

Luke 1:13 But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John.

Genesis 21:1,2 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken. . . .

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Genesis 30:22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

1 Samuel 1:19,20 And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered her. . . .

1 Samuel 2:21,22 And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord. . . .

Hebrews 11:11 By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,

to take.

Genesis 30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Isaiah 54:1-4 Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the Lord. . . .

Context
Gabriel Foretells John's Birth
24And after those days, Elizabeth his wife conceived and hid herself five months, saying: 25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men. 26And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,…
Cross References
Genesis 30:23
And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

Judges 11:37
And she said to her father: Grant me only this, which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may bewail my virginity with my companions.

Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Isaiah 25:8
He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Luke 1:24
And after those days, Elizabeth his wife conceived and hid herself five months, saying:

Luke 1:24
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