Psalms 141

Treated in 4 passages across the library.

  • 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 1
  • 141:3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips. 1
  • 141:5 Let the righteous smite me, [it shall be] a kindness; And let him reprove me, [it shall be as] oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue. 1
  • 141:8 For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord: In thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute. 1

American Standard Version

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites Psa 141: 2

    …y starves prayer. Prayer is compared to incense. ‘Let my prayer be set forth as incense.’ Psa 141: 2. Hot coals were to be put to the incense, to make it odoriferous and fragrant; so fervenc…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.7 The Seventh Commandment cites Psa 141: 3

    …Much evil is conveyed to the heart by the tongue. ‘Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth.’ Psa 141: 3. (4) Look in a special manner to your heart. ‘Keep thy heart with all diligence.’ Prov 4:…

  3. Mighty Power in Prayer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Intercessory Prayer cites Psalm 141:5

    “For yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.” Psalm 141:5. THIS is a very difficult passage in the original and it is hard to fix its meaning with …

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Psa 141: 8

    …o us, is to trust in him. ‘Mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust.’ Psa 141: 8. ‘The God of my rock, in him will I trust.’ 2 Sam 22: 3. There is none in whom we can tru…