This chorale prelude sets a trinity chorale. The text is in three verses, each of which deals with a different figure from the trinity. The first verse reads as follows, "God, Father, support us and do not let us wither, make us free at every hour and help us to die a blessed death. Protect us from the devil, and hold us in strong faith and let us build upon you, and trust in you from the bottom of our hearts, and give ourselves completely over to you, with all true Christians flee the devil's temptations, armored with the power of God. Amen, Amen, that is true, so we sing Halleluja." The second and third verses are exactly the same except that the words "God, Father," are replaced with, "Jesus Christ" and "the Holy Ghost." Buxtehude sets the chorale tune in the soprano with some embellishment. Most often each note of the chorale occupies a half-note duration, however since this chorale tune is somewhat longer than average, Buxtehude chooses to set each note with only a quarter-note duration. Nonetheless the chorale prelude is still relatively long for Buxtehude at 51 measures.

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