Cantata no. 28: Gottlob! Nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV.28

Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende (Praise God! Now the year comes to an end), 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 focused on the turn of the year instead, including stanzas from two hymns, Johann Gramann's "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" and from Paul Eber's "Helft mir Gotts Güte preisen.

Bach structured the cantata in six movements and scored it for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of cornetto, three trombones, two oboes, taille, strings and continuo.