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Cantata LXXXI.: Jesus schlaft, was soll ich hoffen 3 ? Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (1724) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts [1917]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 2.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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Cantata LXXXI.

Jesus schlaft, was soll ich hoffen3 ? Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (1724)

The melody of the concluding Choral is Johann Cruger’s “Jesu, meine Freude” (see Cantata 64).

The words are the second stanza of Johann Franck’s “Jesu, meine Freude” (see Cantata 64):

  • Unter deinen Schirmen
  • Bin ich vor den Sturmen
  • Aller Feinde frei.
  • Lass den Satan wittern,
  • Lass den Feind erbittern,
  • Mir steht Jesus bei.
  • Ob es jetzt
  • Gleich kracht und blitzt,
  • Obgleich Sund’ und Hölle schrecken:
  • Jesus will mich decken.
  • B.G. xx. (i) 24.

Form. Simple (2 Ob. d’amore, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 197.

[3 ] English versions of the Cantata are published by Novello & Co., “Jesus sleeps, what hope remaineth?” and Breitkopf & Haertel, “Jesus sleeps, vain all my hoping.”