Psalms 141:2

David asks that his prayer rise like incense and his lifted hands be as the evening sacrifice. It connects sincere prayer to acceptable worship before God.

Cross-references · 22

• Rev 8:3–4And 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.
• Rev 5:8And 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.
• 1 Tim 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• Dan 9:21Yea, 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.
• Mal 1:11For 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.
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Ps 63:4Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
• Luke 1:9–10According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
• Exod 30:7–9And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
• Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
• Exod 30:34–38And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
• Ps 5:3My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
• Lev 16:11–13And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
• Ezra 9:4Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
• Exod 29:41–42And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
• Exod 29:39The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
• Lev 10:1–2And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
• Acts 3:1Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
• Num 16:46–48And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
• 1 Kgs 18:36And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
• Num 16:35And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

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