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Psalm: 125 & 126
Iconography: The psalmist points to the tag: They that sow in tears, and holds the book with the caption: They shall reap in joy. Below, one man reaps with a sickle and another scattters seeds from a bag. Going they went and wept: casting their seeds. But coming they shall come: carrying their sheaves with joyfulness.


126
The crowned psalmist points to the tag Rise after you have sat, you who ate the bread of sorrow, and points to the people eating bread below. He explains the message to the man clasping his arm. Three people sit below, at a table spread with loaves of bread marked with a cross.
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