Psalms 141

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 141?

  1. Alabaster Heart (Live) — Bethel Music (2019) Psalms 141:2

    The song adapts the psalm's comparison between prayer and ascending incense, expanding it so that the worshipper's entire life becomes the fragrant offering presented to God.

  2. You Reign Yahweh - Live — Victory House Worship (2025) Psalms 141:2

    The imagery of praises rising like incense in the song evokes the biblical metaphor found in Psalms, symbolizing prayers and worship offered to God as a pleasing aroma.

  3. Like Incense / Sometimes By Step — Brooke Ligertwood (2023) Psalms 141:2

    The opening petition closely reproduces the psalm's comparison of prayer to temple incense and raised hands to an evening offering.

  4. Full Surrender — Lakewood Music & Alexander Pappas (2025) Psalms 141:2

    The song combines ascending incense, an acceptable offering, and uplifted hands, closely matching David’s temple-sacrifice imagery for prayer and worship.

Psalms 141 (King James Version)

1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

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

3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.