Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten (Who only lets dear God rule),[1] BWV 93, in Leipzig for the fifth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 9 July 1724.

The cantata is based on the seven stanzas of the hymn Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten by Georg Neumark, published in 1657.

The cantata text is based on the chorale in seven stanzas of Georg Neumark, written in 1641 and published in 1657 in Fortgepflantzter Musikalisch-Poetischer Lustwald.

In the first aria for tenor Bach uses a motive which turns the beginning of the chorale melody to major, to express trust in God.

Johann David Heinichen used a similar major-mode variant, almost a very altered parody of Bach's, for the Recordare in his 1726 requiem in E-Flat Major, S. 18.