  (my heart swims in blood), , is a church cantata by johann sebastian bach. he composed the solo cantata for soprano in weimar for the eleventh sunday after trinity and first performed it on 12 august 1714. == history and words == on 2 march 1714 bach was appointed concertmaster of the weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes wilhelm ernst and ernst august of saxe-weimar. as concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. he composed the cantata for the eleventh sunday after trinity as the fifth cantata of the series, following . the prescribed readings for the sunday were from the first epistle to the corinthians, on the gospel of christ and his (paul's) duty as an apostle (), and from the gospel of luke, the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector (). the text, which concerns a sinner finding redemption, was written by georg christian lehms and published in . the same author had written the text for widerstehe doch der sÃ¼nde, bwv 54, composed the month before. movement 6 is the third stanza of johann heermann's hymn "". the cantata text had been set to music in 1712 by johann christoph graupner in darmstadt. it is not known if bach knew of graupner's composition. bach first performed the cantata on 12 august 1714. he made revisions for later performances, and the neue bach-ausgabe recognises two distinct versions, the weimar version and the leipzig version. == scoring and structure == the cantata in eight movements is scored for 
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