Psalms 141:2
May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
1A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
Cross References
Exodus 29:39Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
Exodus 30:7And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
Exodus 35:15the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
Leviticus 16:11When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
Ezra 9:4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 141:2-5
Fervent Supplications. 1 Lord , I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 3 Set a watch, O Lord , before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things… Read the whole commentary →