PSALM LXXXIX (90), f. 53r.
The beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos, holding a cross-staff, spear and shield is standing within a mandorla flanked by four angels and by personifications of the sun and moon, the 'morning' and 'evening' of verse 6. He has taken His position over a walled enclosure in which is a tabernacle. The attributes of the Christ-Logos, the enclosure, and the tabernacle are all inspired by the idea of God as a 'refugium' expressed in verse 1. To the right outside the walls is a personification of Terra seated on a throne and holding a globe of the earth in her hand (verse 2). In a corresponding position to the left is a cave within which three small naked figures are walking away with their backs towards the Christ-Logos; one of them turns his head. This may be suggested by verse 3: 'ne avertas hominem in humilitatem! et dixisti: Convertimini filii hominum.' Beside them to the right another nude figure is holding a scroll and pointing to it while gazing up at the Christ-Logos ('Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,' verse 8). Within the enclosure the psalmist raises one hand to the Christ-Logos and with the other points to a group of men, most of them old, who are crouched before the tabernacle ('The days of our years are threescore years and ten ...,' verse 10). Another old man is seated on the hillside to the left within the walled area. There are also grasses within the enclosure which in one place are 'flourishing' and in another are 'cut down' and 'withering' (verse 6). In the right foreground outside the wall a group of warriors are standing before a tent and trampling a number of their victims. The explanation for these figures seems to be the further elaboration of the idea of God as a refuge which is carried out elsewhere in the picture.
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