J. S. Bach - Cantata "Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee" BWV 18 - 3. Mein Gott, hier wird (3/5)
For sexagesima Sunday.
Erdmann Neumeister, Geistliches Singen und Spielen (Gotha, 1711); Facs: Neumann T, p. 294.
2. Is. 55:10-11; 3. Martin Luther, portions of the Litany, 1528/29, with interpolated recitative; 5. Lazarus Spengler, verse 8 of "Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt," 1524 (Wackernagel, III, #71).
1713 to 24 February 1715 (latest possible date according to Dürr, pp. 209-210), Weimar; revised in A Minor in Leipzig.
Included by Bach in first annual cycle (Leipzig 1723-24
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman, Director
3. Recit. (T, B) and Litany (S, A, T, B):
(T)
My God, here shall my heart abide:
I open it to thee in Jesus' name now(1);
So scatter wide thy seed then
As if on fertile land in me.
My God, here shall my heart abide:
Let it bring forth in hundredfold its harvest.
O Lord, Lord, help! O Lord, O let it prosper!(2)
(S, A, T, B)
That thou might to the word thy Spirit add, and power,
O hear us, O good Lord, our God!
(B)
But keep us, faithful Father, keep us,
Both me and any Christian soul,
From Satan's lies attending.
His mind has only one intent,
Of this thy word to rob us
With all our happiness.
(S, A, T, B)
That Satan underneath our feet be trodden,
O hear us, O good Lord, our God!
(T)
Ah! Many, word and faith renouncing,
Do fall away like rotting fruit,
When persecution they must suffer.
Thus they are plunged in everlasting grief
For having passing woe avoided.
(S, A, T, B)
And from all the Turk's and all the Pope's
Most cruel murder and oppression,
Anger and fury, fatherlike protect us.
O hear us, O good Lord, our God!
(B)
One man may but for belly care,
And meanwhile is his soul left quite forgotten;
And Mammon, too,
Hath many hearts' allegiance,
And then the word is left without its power.
How many are the souls
Of pleasure not the captive?
So well seduceth them the world,
The world which must by them instead of heav'n be honored,
So that they then from heaven stray and wander.
(S, A, T, B)
All those now who are gone and led astray recover.
O hear us, O good Lord, our God!
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