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Psalm: 145
Iconography: God looks out from heaven. David lifts his soul whose arms are outstretched in praise: My soul praise the lord. He points to a man in a sarcophagus, from whose mouth a bird representing his spirit, flies out: His spirit shall go forth and he shall return to his earth.
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