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2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. …
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things which we are here taught by David’s example to pray to God for. I. David loved prayer, and he begs of God that his prayers might be heard and answered, Ps. 141:1 , 2 . David cried unto God . His crying denotes fervency in prayer; he prayed as one in earnest. His crying to God denotes faith and fixedness in pra…
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