Luke 1:48 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁸ for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: For, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁸ For He has looked upon the low station and humiliation of His handmaiden. For behold, from now on all generations [of all ages] will call me blessed and declare me happy and to be envied!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid: For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ He has looked with favor on the low status of his servant. Look! From now on, everyone will consider me highly favored

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ For he has looked with favor on the humility of his handmaid. For behold, from this time, all generations shall call me blessed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁸ Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Luke 1:48 Cross References

Genesis 30:13

And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy”; so she called his name Asher.

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;

Psalm 102:17

he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.

Psalm 136:23

It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.

Psalm 72:17

May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.

Malachi 3:12

Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 1:28

And he came to her and said, “Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”

Luke 1:42

and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Luke 1:45

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

Luke 1:49

for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

Luke 11:27

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!”

1 Samuel 1:11

And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy maidservant, and remember me, and not forget thy maidservant, but wilt give to thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.