PSALM XXIX (30), f. 16v.
The Hand of God issues from heaven above a scene in which the beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos attended by three angels (verse 11) is assisting the psalmist out of a sarcophagus. Snaky-locked demons with hooks reach for the psalmist, while other demons with spears and tridents are tormenting sinners in a fiery pit of Hell ('O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave, ... that I should not go down to the pit,' verse 4, (3)). In the upper corners of the picture the psalmist is represented twice; at the right, seated in sorrow under the moon and stars ('weeping may endure for a night,' verse 6, (5)), and at the left, dancing on a hillside beneath the personification of the sun ('but joy cometh in the morning'). In the lower right foreground a group of 'saints' is singing and giving thanks (verse 5, (4)).
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