Show Me (I Pray Thee) Thy Glory

Jeremy Riddle sets Moses's specific request from Exodus 33 to music almost unchanged — 'show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory' quotes Exodus 33:18 directly, and 'hide me in Your hand and pass before me' follows Exodus 33:22's account of God placing Moses in the cleft of the rock and covering him with his hand while his glory passed by. The song doesn't generalize the request into something anyone could ask abstractly; it keeps Moses's exact words intact.

'You've shown Yourself completely, Lord, to just a few, what must I do to know You the way they do?' names a real, specific longing — not just wanting more of God in the abstract, but wanting the kind of encounter certain figures in Scripture clearly had. 'How can I go on if You're not with me?' echoes the urgency underneath Moses's own request in Exodus 33, made right after God had threatened to send an angel instead of going personally — presence, not just guidance, being the actual thing worth asking for.