"Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" (Now praise, my soul, the Lord) is a Lutheran hymn written in German by the theologian and reformer Johann Gramann in 1525.

[4] A fifth stanza was added in a reprint in Nürnberg in 1555, "Sey Lob und Preis mit Ehren".

Heinrich Schütz set the hymn as part of Book I of his Psalmen Davids in 1619 (SWV 41).

nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV 28, reflecting thanks for a year coming to a close.

[7] Bach also used the third stanza of the hymn for the second of three movements of the motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225.