【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (God So Loved the World), BWV 68 - Complete Performance. This beautiful piece was played by The German Bach Soloists. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (BWV 68) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Like most of the libretti by the Leipzig poet Mariana von Ziegler set to music by Bach, the choral cantata composed for the 2nd day of Pentecost in 1725 is particularly colourfully orchestrated. In this variety of sound and the swinging and dance-like style of several movements, the diversity of Pentecostal tongues can be heard alongside the joy befitting the feast. The elegiac siciliano of the opening chorus, which speaks of Christ's sacrifice, as well as the harsh world of judgement in the final movement, which separates the faithful from the rejected, are coloured by the archaic, priestly aura of the cornetts and trombones.
(Source: bachipedia.org)
Lyrics:
1
So God loved the world,
That he gave us his Son,
Whoever surrenders to him in faith,
Shall live with him there for ever.
Whoever believes that Jesus was born to him,
He shall abide eternally without lost.
And there is no sorrow that grieves him,
Whom God and his Jesus loves.
2
Now am I also a member of the world
And believe firmly and without doubt,
That my God holds me in his heart
And protects me against all devils.
That I, taken up to life,
Have now escaped condemnation.
And there is no sorrow to grieve me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
3
Satan has so seduced me,
That I have fallen into sin,
That God's wrath has stirred me up
And the fires of hell are raging against me:
I can constantly hope,
God's heaven is open to me.
And there is no sorrow to grieve me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
4
Though I am guilty of death
To lie in the jaws of hell,
But my God has patience with me
And will save me a sinner.
Will not destroy my soul,
I shall inherit his paradise.
And there is no sorrow that grieves me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
5
comes sorrow, misery, cross and distress
And want to suffocate me with power:
I will not fear the worst death,
God wants to refresh me everywhere.
The greatest suffering cannot separate me
Cannot separate me from his heaven.
And there is no suffering that grieves me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
6
Though fire, water, earth and air
Are against me with their lamentations,
Each calls God to vengeance
And are minded to afflict me.
But none can harmfully kill me,
God also helps me out of their troubles.
And there is no sorrow that grieves me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
7
The judgement too terrifies me,
Before which I cannot prevail,
Because my conscience itself speaks:
I shall go to the damned.
But my Jesus will not judge me,
His blood will atone for my sin
And there is no sorrow to grieve me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
8
If at last the heavens fall
And the earth will not bear me up,
God will be my heaven
And not deny me my place.
To stay with him for eternity,
No enemy will drive me from him.
And there is no sorrow that shall grieve me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
9
So now I remain completely unharmed,
Because God's love covers me,
Even if death and the devil set upon me
And the mouth of hell terrifies me.
What is cruel must disappear,
But I still find heaven.
And there is no suffering that grieves me,
Because my God and Jesus love me.
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