This is a very small point, but I just listened to Bach's Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16 and noticed a significant grammatical inversion in the first movement (also in the title). It's "Herr Gott, dich loben wir," not "Herr Gott, wir loben dich." Translated, "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" is "Lord, you praise we," which sounds odd because English doesn't really have different forms for different cases. In a smoother translation, it's "Lord, you we praise." Through that inversion, the focus is placed on God because He comes first in that phrase.*
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*"Phrase" in a loose grammatical sense because "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" has a subject and a verb. Technically, a grammatical phrase has - at most - only one of those.
