PSALM XXXVI (37), f. 21r.
The beardless, nimbed Christ-Logos, with six angels, is placed in the heavens above the bearded psalmist who is enthroned before a lectern containing a book and a pair of scales. Two young men stand beside the psalmist, and a personification of the sun is placed above the book and scales ('He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the noonday,' verse 6). On a hill at the right four men are being served at a table by an attendant ('in the days of famine they shall be satisfied,' verse 19). Beside the table an angel is supporting a 'righteous' man who is about to fall (verse 24). In the middle register at the right a man is distributing provisions to a group of poor and needy (verse 26). Scenes of plowing, sowing, reaping, and garnering are strung along the lower foreground ('they shall wither away as grass' (verse 2) and 'his seed is blessed,' verse 26). At the left a group of people is pointing at a man in a tree, ('vidi impium superexaltatum et elevatum sicut cedros Libani,' verse 35), who is seen again to the right, falling from his high estate (verse 36). Below is a band of the ungodly; some are drawing a sword, and others are transfixing themselves with their weapons ('The wicked have drawn out the sword,' verse 14; 'Their sword shall enter into their own heart,' verse 15); another holds a broken bow ( 'and their bows shall be broken,' verse 15).
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