Unspecified occasion (or For any occasion, Per ogni tempo?, cf. Dürr, p. 639).

The six verses of the hymn by Samuel Rodigast, 1674 (Fischer-Tümpel, IV, #467).

After 1732, Leipzig; again after 1735 (Neumann Hb).

BG 22;  NBA I/34.

1.  Chorus [Verse 1] (S, A, T, B)

What God doth, that is rightly done,
His will is just forever;
Whatever course he sets my life,
I will trust him with calmness.
He is my God,
Who in distress
Knows well how to support me;
So I yield him all power.
 

2.  Aria [Verse 2] (A, T)

What God doth, that is rightly done,
He will not e'er betray me;
He leads me on the proper path,
So I will find contentment
Within his care
And then forbear,
He shall turn my misfortune,
In his hands rests the outcome.
 

3.  Aria [Verse 3] (S)

What God doth, that is rightly done,
He will me well consider;
He doth, my healer, wonders work
And will no poison give me
As healing balm.
God keepeth faith,
I'll make him my foundation
And to his mercy trust me.
 

4.  Aria [Verse 4] (B)

What God doth, that is rightly done,
He is my light, my being,
Who me no evil can allow;
I'll be to him committed
In joy and woe!
The time is nigh
When manifest appeareth
How faithful his intention.
 

5.  Aria [Verse 5] (A)

What God doth, that is rightly done;
Though I the cup must savor
Soon, bitter to my maddened sense,
I will yet be not frightened,
For at the last
I will find joy
And sweet hope in my bosom;
And yield shall all my sorrow.
 

6.  Chorale [Verse 6] (S, A, T, B)

What God doth, that is rightly done,
To that will I be cleaving.
Though out upon the cruel road
Need, death, and suff'ring drive me,
E'en so God will,
All fatherhood,
Within his arms enfold me;
So I yield him all power.

© Copyright  Z. Philip Ambrose

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