Psalm 141:2
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Note set…: Heb. directed
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Let my prayer
- David, who was now driven from Judea, and far from the sanctuary, here prays that the devotion of his heart, and the elevation of his hands, might be accepted; that the one might ascend to heaven fragrant and well pleasing as the cloud of incense, and the other, in conjunction with it, be prevalent as the {minchah,} or evening oblation.
- Proverbs 15:8
- set forth
- Heb. directed.
- Psalm 5:3
- as incense
- Exodus 30:7–9, 34–38; Leviticus 10:1, 2; Leviticus 16:11–13; Numbers 16:35, 46–48; Malachi 1:11; Luke 1:9, 10; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3, 4
- the lifting
- Psalm 28:2; Psalm 63:4; Psalm 134:2; 1 Timothy 2:8
- the evening
- Exodus 29:39, 42; 1 Kings 18:36; Ezra 9:4; Daniel 9:21; Acts 3:1