Psalms 141:2-3 - Compare All Versions
Psalms 141:2-3 NIV (New International Version)
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:2-3 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Psalms 141:2-3 NLT (New Living Translation)
Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering. Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
Psalms 141:2-3 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
May my prayer be set before you as incense, the raising of my hands as the evening offering. LORD, set up a guard for my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:2-3 KJV (King James Version)
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:2-3 NKJV (New King James Version)
Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:1-7 MSG (The Message)
GOD, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears—it’s my voice you’re hearing! Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers. Post a guard at my mouth, GOD, set a watch at the door of my lips. Don’t let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong— don’t let them lure me with their sweet talk! May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don’t let sin anoint my head. I’m praying hard against their evil ways! Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music. Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
Psalms 141:2-3 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
May my prayer be counted as incense before You; The raising of my hands as the evening offering. Set a guard, LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:2-3 AMP (Amplified Bible)
Let my prayer be counted as incense before You; The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering. [1 Tim 2:8; Rev 8:3, 4] Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly].
Psalms 141:2-3 NET (New English Translation)
May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering! O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!