Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh. 5

5, is a church cantata text by Christian Friedrich Hunold which was performed, most likely in a setting by Johann Sebastian Bach, for the twenty-fourth birthday of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen on 10 December 1718.

The vocal music he composed in Köthen nearly exclusively consisted of secular cantatas on librettos by Christian Friedrich Hunold, who published such texts under the pen name Menantes.

Around his twenty-fourth birthday Prince Leopold hired a number of visiting musicians, including the singers Prese and Riemschneider [als], Johann Georg Linike [de] as concertmaster and Johann Gottfried Vogler who was engaged at the Neukirche, the Collegium Musicum and the Oper am Brühl (Leipzig) in the late 1710s.

Ihr wallenden Wolken, BWV 1150, an entirely lost New Year's Day cantata in honor of Prince Leopold, is often grouped with Bach's sacred music, but it may as well have been a secular work.

[1][2][4][5][6][7][8] In his printed libretto, Hunold indicates Psalms 119:175, "Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me", as the theme of the cantata.