Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!) 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.
| Original Name | Wachet, betet, seid bereit allezeit! |
| Librettist | Salomo Franck (1659-1725) (Nos.1-5) Christian Keymann (1607-1662) (No.6) (text not lost, but music survives in a few individual parts; revised as BWV 70) |
| Date of composition | 1716 |
| Premiered | 1716, December 6th (Schloßkapelle "Weg zum Himmelsburg") in Weimar, Germany |
| Dedicated to | 2nd Sunday in Advent |
| Type | Sacred Cantata |
| Tonality | C Major |
| Catalogue | BWV 70a |
| Spoken language | German |
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Watch! pray! pray! watch! in C major, BWV 70
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Jean-Sébastien Bach: Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch! en do majeur, BWV 70a Johann Sebastian Bach: Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch! in do maggiore, BWV 70a Johann Sebastian Bach: Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch! C-dur, BWV 70a |