Bach composed the cantata in his first year in Leipzig, which he had started after Trinity of 1723, for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, on the gospel of Christ and Paul's duty as an apostle (1 Corinthians 15:1–10), and from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 18:9–14). The unknown poet stayed close to the gospel and alluded to several Bible passages. The cantata is opened by a line from Wisdom of Sirach 1:29. the closing chorale is the first stanza of Christoph Tietze's hymn "Ich armer Mensch, ich armer Sünder" (1663).
| Librettist | Christoph Titius (1641–1703) (movement 6) Also Ecclesiasticus 1:28 (first movement) and anonymous (possibly Christian Weiss, Sr.) (partly re-used in BWV 234, BWV 236) |
| Date of composition | 1723 (?) |
| Premiered | 1723, August 8th in Leipzig, Germany |
| First published | 1843 in Berlin, Germany |
| Type | Sacred Cantata |
| Tonality | G Major |
| Catalogue | BWV 179 |
| Instruments |
3x
Voice
Chorus/Choir Orchestra |
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Jean-Sébastien Bach: Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht en sol majeur, BWV 179 Johann Sebastian Bach: Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht in sol maggiore, BWV 179 Johann Sebastian Bach: Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht G-dur, BWV 179 |