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! bethet! bethet! wachet!
Seyd bereit
Allezeit,
Biß der HERR der Herrlichkeit
Dieser Welt ein Ende machet.
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