Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

[Nick Baty]

Putting our music lists together for Lent.
Would love to you Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence on Second Sunday (8 March) but can't use verse 4 because of the Alleluias.
Rather than omit the verse (as we usually do), does anyone know of an alternative version of this verse?

[Southern Comfort]

Try this:

"Praise to you, Lord Jesus, Word__ of__ God;
praise to you, O Lord Most High."

[The Alleluias are part of the original Greek text.]

[Nick Baty]

And from a friend in a neighbouring parish:
Praise to you, O God (or Lord) Almighty
Praise to You, O God (Lord) Most high

[gwyn]

Looking at Isaiah chapter 6 upon which I suspect the final verse of Let all Mortal Flesh is based, we have

Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
And one called to another and said:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory."

So following Nick's idea of a Lent-appropriate final two lines, an 8, 7, metre (meter?) rendering of "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory." would be ideal. I'm reluctant to attempt this myself but if anyone could paraphrase this it'd be great. The closest I can get - as suggested by a member of our parish choir - is;

"Holy holy holy, Lord of hosts, (or Lord God of Hosts) this is one (or two) syllables over but it works
Heav'n and earth you glorify. this line works metrically but but falls a fraction short of capturing the essence of "the whole earth is full of his glory."

In Apocolypse Chapter 4 we have;

...And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all round and within, and day and night they never cease to sing, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!"

so more food for thought there.

An inspited idea Nick. Thanks for it.
Gwyn.