What Does “Benedictus” Mean in the Bible?

What the Bible says

Luke 1:68-79

⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people: ⁶⁹And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant: ⁷⁰As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning: ⁷¹Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us: ⁷²To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament, ⁷³The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us, ⁷⁴That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear, ⁷⁵In holiness and justice before him, all our days. 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 to his people, unto the remission of their sins: ⁷⁸Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us: ⁷⁹To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.