PSALM LV (56), f. 31v.
The psalmist on a hillock in the lower foreground of the picture points to his eyes (verse 9, (8)) and touches his right heel with his right hand. Those who watch his heel are hiding themselves behind their shields (verse 7, (6): 'Inhabitabunt et obscondent: ipsi calcaneum meum observabunt'). Below the hillock is a pit of Hell in which the snaky-locked, bearded head of Death is seen (verse 14, (13)). To the left 'many that fight against me' (verse 3, (2)) are closing in on the psalmist with various weapons. Above the psalmist the bearded Christ-Logos, with bannered cross-staff and without a nimbus or a mandorla, is repulsing three of the enemies of his protégé (verse 10, (9)). To the right the Hand of God issues from heaven, whence rays descend upon a group of three men (verse 14, (13)).
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