Psalms 141

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 141?

  1. Holy Spirit, Living Breath Of God/Gabriel's Oboe - Live — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2013) Psalms 141:2

    The depiction of prayer ascending as fragrance recalls the psalm's presentation of prayer as incense offered before God.

  2. 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.

  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. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Think About It — Crystal Lewis (2014) Psalms 141:3

    The opening prayer asks God to guard the speaker's mouth against regrettable speech, closely adapting the psalmist's request for divine protection over his mouth and lips.

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.