Thine Be The Glory

Rend Collective performs Edmond Budry's 1884 Easter hymn, and its opening line makes an unusual grammatical choice — addressing the glory itself as belonging entirely to Christ, 'Thine be the glory,' rather than opening with praise language aimed more generally. 'Risen and conquering Son, endless is the victory Thou over death hast won' names the resurrection specifically as a military triumph, not just a return to life.

'Death has lost its sting' lifts 1 Corinthians 15:55's taunt, 'death, where is your sting,' directly, and 'make us more than conquerors through Thy deathless love' echoes Romans 8:37's promise that believers are 'more than conquerors through him who loved us' — borrowing Christ's own victory as the basis for a shared one. 'Bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above' reaches back to an older image, Israel crossing into the promised land, to describe a still-future hope, tying Christ's historical resurrection to a personal one still awaited.