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Psalms Chapter 141 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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BBE Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
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DARBY Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.
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KJV Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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WBT Psalms 141:2

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WEB Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
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YLT Psalms 141:2

My prayer is prepared -- incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands -- the evening present.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Let my prayer be set forth (or, "established") before thee as incense; i.e. with the regularity of the incense, and with its acceptableness. And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. The hands were "lifted up" in prayer, which was reckoned a serf of sacrifice (Hosea 14:2).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Set forth . . .--See margin; but more literally, be erected, suggesting the pillar of smoke (comp. Tennyson's "Azure pillars of the hearth") continually rising to heaven. Some think the incense refers to the morning sacrifice, so that the verse will mean, "let my prayer rise regularly as morning and evening sacrifice." But this is hardly necessary.Sacrifice--i.e., the offering of flour and oil, which followed the burnt offering both at morning and evening (Leviticus 2:1-11; in Authorised Version," meat offering "), and here probably associated specially with evening, because the prayer was uttered at the close of the day. (See Note, Psalm 141:3.)For the "lifted hands," here, from the parallelism, evidently only a symbol of prayer, and not a term for oblation, see Psalm 28:2, Note."For what are men better than sheep or goats,That nourish a blind life within the Drain,If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer, . . .