Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 642
Title If thou but suffer God to guide thee
Composed 1713, Weimar
Key A-Minor
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Orgelbuechlein
Event Lent
Author of text Georg Neumark, 1657
Text

1. If thou but suffer God to guide thee,
And hope in Him through all thy ways,
He'll give the strength what'er betide thee,
And bear thee through the evil days.
Who trusts in God's unchanging love
Builds on a rock that naught can move.

4. God knows full well when times of gladness
Shall be the needful thing for thee.
When He has tried thy soul with sadness
And from all guile has found thee free,
He comes to thee all unaware
And makes thee own His loving care.

Manuscript Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Music library, Leipzig; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Conservatory, Brussels; Yale University, New Haven; University library, Warzawa

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