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,

He, the last 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.