Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV 28

Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV 28, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for the Sunday after Christmas. He first performed it on 30 December 1725. Bach wrote the cantata in the third year of his tenure as Thomaskantor, director of church music in Leipzig. The text by Erdmann Neumeister ignores the prescribed reading for the Sunday and is focuse on the turn of the year instead, including stanza's from two hymns, Johann Gramann's "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" and from Paul Eber's "Helft mir Gotts Güte preisen.