PSALM LXXII (73), f. 41v.
The troubled psalmist is seated on a hillside in the upper right of the picture. The Hand of God issues from heaven and grasps his right hand ('Thou hast holden me by my right hand,' verse 23). Six angels are ranged in groups of threes above the Hand of God, which was probably placed in the middle in the original illustration from which this was copied. Below the psalmist is a mare and her colt, 'the beast' unto which the psalmist compares himself in verse 22. Behind him is a walled city with a prominent gate ('in portis filiae Sion,' verse 28). A small tabernacle stands beside the city (verse 17). A personification of the sun representing the 'day' or 'morning' (verse 14) is at the left of the group of angels in the heavens. In the upper left corner is a group of the wicked holding scrolls and books who 'iniquitatem in excelso locuti sunt,' verse 8. In the right foreground is another group of the wicked trampling their victims (verse 18). An idol on a pedestal 'their image' (verse 20) is placed to the left of them. Above them a wingless angel holding a whip and spears (the whip suggested by 'flagellabuntur' and 'flagellatus' of verses 5 and 14), is driving a large number of the wicked into a fiery pit of Hell in which appears the flaming head of Death (verse 27). Above the pit three figures are dreaming on their beds (verse 20). To the right of the angel a number of children are washing their hands in a spring ('lavi inter innocentes manus meas,' verse 13). In the lower right corner a group of the wicked 'prospering in the world' are seated about a table filled with food (verse 7).
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