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 8:3–4Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
• Rev 5:8Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
• 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
• Dan 9:21yes, while I was speaking in prayer, 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 offering.
• Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Ps 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
• Luke 1:9–10according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
• Exod 30:7–9Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
• Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
• Exod 30:34–38Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each;
• Ps 5:3Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
• Lev 16:11–13“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
• Ezra 9:4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
• Exod 29:41–42The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
• Exod 29:39The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:
• Lev 10:1–2Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
• Acts 3:1Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
• Num 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
• 1 Kgs 18:36At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
• Num 16:35Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

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