Kantate, BWV 183 "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun"

Sie werden euch in den Bann tun (They will put you under banishment), BWV 183, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for Exaudi, the Sunday after Ascension, and first performed it on 13 May 1725.

It is the fifth of nine cantatas on texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, with whom Bach collaborated at the end of his second cantata cycle. It begins with quote from the Gospel, set for the bass as the vox Christi. For a closing chorale she used a stanza of Paul Gerhardt's "Zeuch ein zu deinen Toren". The theme of the cantata is the reaction of the believer to the announcement of hardship and the hope for the assistance of the promised Holy Spirit. Bach scored the cantata for four vocal soloists (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a four-part choir and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two oboes d'amore, two oboes da caccia, a violoncello piccolo, strings and basso continuo. Unusually, all four oboes play together in two recitatives.