Psalms 141:2

1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
KJV
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
WEB
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
ASV
Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
DARBY
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.
BLB
Let my prayer be established like incense before Your face, [and] the lifting of my hands like the offering of the evening.
ÅB
La min bønn gjelde som røykoffer for ditt åsyn, mine henders oppløftelse som et kveld-matoffer!
OTB
La min bønn stige opp for deg som røkelse;
Mine løftede hender som et kveldsoffer.
B1930
La min bønn gjelde som røkoffer for ditt åsyn, mine henders opløftelse som et aften-matoffer!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Revelation 8:3–4

    And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

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  • Revelation 5:8

    And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

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  • 1 Timothy 2:8

    I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

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  • Daniel 9:21

    Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

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  • Malachi 1:11

    For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

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  • Proverbs 15:8

    The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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  • Psalms 63:4

    Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

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  • Luke 1:9–10

    According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

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