Overview
Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! is the title of two church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed a first version, BWV 70a, in Weimar for the second Sunday in Advent of 1716 and expanded it in 1723 in Leipzig to BWV 70, a cantata in two parts for the 26th Sunday after Trinity.
Libretto
Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!
Seid bereit
Allezeit,
Bis der Herr der Herrlichkeit
Dieser Welt ein Ende machet.