Bach scholar Christoph Wolff found it evident that Bach reprised the second cycle in 1735, performing the new cantata between Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111, for the third Sunday after Epiphany and Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92, for Septuagesima. In 1735, shortly after the first performance of his Christmas Oratorio, Bach seems to have desired to fill this void and complete his cycle of chorale cantatas. As Easter was early in 1725, there was no Fourth Sunday after Epiphany that year. In his second year he composed a second annual cycle of cantatas, which was planned to consist exclusively of chorale cantatas, each based on one Lutheran chorale. During his first year, beginning with the first Sunday after Trinity, he had written a first cycle of cantatas for the occasions of the liturgical year. The closing chorale resembles in complexity the chorales of his Christmas Oratorio.Д«ach held the position of Thomaskantor (director of church music) in Leipzig from 1723. In the inner movements, sung by three soloists, Bach depicts in word painting terms such as flood, waves and fury. The hymn tune is played by instruments, freeing the soprano to interact with the lower voices.

Ten years later, Bach wrote an advanced unusual chorale fantasia as the first section of it, combining elements of a motet with complex counterpoint.

The text was possibly prepared already at that time. In 1725, Easter had been early and therefore no fourth Sunday after Epiphany happened. Its text paraphrases Psalm 124, focussing on the thought that the believers' life depends on God's help and is lost without it.Д«ach composed the cantata as a late addition to his chorale cantata cycle of 1724/25. The cantata, in Bach's chorale cantata format, is based on Martin Luther's hymn ' WГ¤r Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit'. Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata WГ¤r Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (Were God not with us at this time), BWV 14, in Leipzig in 1735 for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 30 January 1735, a few weeks after his Christmas Oratorio.

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