PRAISE TO THE HOLIEST IN THE HEIGHT

[1]
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise:
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways.

[2]
O loving wisdom of our God,
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.

[3]
O wisest love, that flesh and blood,
which did in Adam fail,
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive and should prevail.

[4]
And that a higher gift than grace
should flesh and blood refine,
God's presence and his very self,
and essence all-divine.

[5]
O generous love, that he who smote
in Man for man the foe,
the double agony in Man
for man should undergo.

[6]
And in the garden secretly,
and on the Cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die.

[7]
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise:
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways.