Track 7: Wrapping up with Redemption

Lily Cathcart November 29, 2025 1 0

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Psalm 71 (NIVUK)

1 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
    let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;
    turn your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my rock of refuge,
    to which I can always go;
give the command to save me,
    for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
    from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel.

5 For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord,
    my confidence since my youth.
6 From my birth I have relied on you;
    you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.
    I will ever praise you.
7 I have become a sign to many;
    you are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is filled with your praise,
    declaring your splendour all day long.

9 Do not cast me away when I am old;
    do not forsake me when my strength is gone.
10 For my enemies speak against me;
    those who wait to kill me conspire together.
11 They say, ‘God has forsaken him;
    pursue him and seize him,
    for no one will rescue him.’
12 Do not be far from me, my God;
    come quickly, God, to help me.
13 May my accusers perish in shame;
    may those who want to harm me
    be covered with scorn and disgrace.

14 As for me, I shall always have hope;
    I will praise you more and more.

15 My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds,
    of your saving acts all day long –
    though I know not how to relate them all.
16 I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord;
    I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.
17 Since my youth, God, you have taught me,
    and to this day I declare your marvellous deeds.
18 Even when I am old and grey,
    do not forsake me, my God,
till I declare your power to the next generation,
    your mighty acts to all who are to come.

19 Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,
    you who have done great things.
    Who is like you, God?
20 Though you have made me see troubles,
    many and bitter,
    you will restore my life again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will again bring me up.
21 You will increase my honour
    and comfort me once more.

22 I will praise you with the harp
    for your faithfulness, my God;
I will sing praise to you with the lyre,
    Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will shout for joy
    when I sing praise to you –
    I whom you have delivered.
24 My tongue will tell of your righteous acts
    all day long,
for those who wanted to harm me
    have been put to shame and confusion.

The last track on Jesus’s album is here and once again he turns to the scriptures he grew up learning, to a psalm that covers it all. From the first moments of life: ‘From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.’ to old age: ‘Even when I am old and grey, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation.’ And with so many words to fit in and a rhythm built strong over the album, Jesus makes this last tune into a multilayered hip hop track with rap, remixed samples, and callbacks to earlier parts of the album.

Echoing the hope that has shone through from the start of the album I can imagine this track filling its listeners with some hard truths and some moments of rejoicing as it calls out to God. I can almost see the friends and disciples of Jesus nodding their heads and adding percussion as he sings it out, words they know well told in a new way making them hear everything as if they never have before.

Jesus’s voice cries out with a depth that they may not have heard for a while as he sings ‘Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.’ knowing, as he must, what is to come. Both for his own human existence, and the lives of millions of humans throughout history.

Then the last sounds fade away from his song and the friends sit together, going over in their mind all they have heard. Satisfied with his last track Jesus still knows he has so much more to say. Maybe one day he thinks, I’ll make another one.

Prayer:

Dear God of words from all time

Thank you that you spoke then and that you speak now

Help us to see which words are really you

Lead our hearts to take up your rhythm in the time we have on this earth

Amen