Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 422
Title Wherefore should I grieve and pine?
Composed Unknown
Scoring

Choir for 4 voices

Movements Chorale: Wherefore should I grieve and pine?
Category Chorale
Event -
Author of text J. G. Ebeling 1666; D. Vetter 1713
Text
Chorale:
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass


Wherefore should I grieve and pine?
Is not Christ the Lord still mine?
Who can sever me from Him?
Who can rob me of the heaven
Which the Son of God hath given
Unto faith though weak and dim?

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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