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 friends, and thus 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.