Psalms 141:2
Accept my prayer as though it were incense being burned as an offering [SIM] to you. And accept me while I lift up my hands to pray to you like you accept sacrifices that I offer to you each evening [SIM].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1Yahweh, I call out to you; please help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.
3Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong; guard my lips.
Cross References
Exodus 29:39One lamb must be sacrificed in the morning, and one must be sacrificed in the evening.
Exodus 30:7Aaron must burn sweet-smelling incense on this altar. He must burn some every morning when he takes care of the lamps,
Exodus 35:15the altar for burning incense, and the poles for carrying that altar, the oil for anointing and the sweet-smelling incense, the curtain for the entrance of the Sacred Tent,
Leviticus 16:11“Then Aaron must bring the young bull to me, to be an offering/sacrifice for himself and for his family. He must slaughter that bull to be an offering for their sins, and he must drain the blood into a basin.
Numbers 16:46Moses/I said to Aaron, “Quickly take another pan and put in it some burning/hot coals from the altar. Put incense in the pan, and carry it out among the people to atone for the sins of the people. Yahweh is very angry with them, and I know that a ◄severe plague/bad sickness► has already started among them.”
Ezra 9:4So many of the Israelis trembled/were afraid when they heard that some of those who had returned from Babylonia had sinned by disobeying the God of us Israelis like that. They came and sat with me until it was time to offer the evening sacrifices of grain.
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 →