Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9

JS Bach - Cantata "Es Ist Das Heil Uns Kommen Her" BWV 9 (1/2)

Cantata on Chorale Sixth Sunday after Trinity. Poet unknown. 1. Es Ist Das Heil Uns Kommen Her 2. Gott gab uns ein Gesetz at 4:44 3. Wir waren schon zu tief gesunken at 5:53 4. Doch mußte das Gesetz erfüllet werden at 9:22 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Ton Koopman, Director 1. Chorus (S, A, T, B) Now is to us salvation come By grace and purest favor. Our works, they help us not at all, They offer no protection. But faith shall Jesus Christ behold, Who hath enough done for us all He is our intercessor. 2. Recit. (B) God gave to us a law, but we were far too weak That we could ever hope to keep it. We followed but the call of sin, No man could be called godly; The soul remained to flesh adherent And ventured not to stand against it. We were within the law to walk And there as if within a mirror see How yet our nature was undisciplined; And just the same we clung to it. Of his own strength none had the power His sinful rudeness to abandon, E'en though he all his strength might strive to gather. 3. Aria (T) We were ere then too deeply fallen, The chasm sucked us fully down, The deep then threatened us with death, And even still in such distress There was no hand to lend us help. 4. Recit. (B) But somehow was the law to have fulfillment; And for this came to earth salvation, The Highest's Son hath it himself fulfilled And his own Father's wrath made still. Through his own guiltless dying He let us win salvation. Who now in him doth trust And on his passion build, He walketh not ...


Digital sheet music source: Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9

Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata "Es ist das heil uns kommen her" (BWV 9)