Strange land. — The feeling expressed in this question is too natural to need any such explanation as that it was contrary to the Law to sing a sacred song in a strange land. Nehemiah’s answer (Nehemiah 2:2-3) offers a direct illustration.
Of Jerusalem’s choir in Babylon it might truly be said:
“Like strangers’ voices here they sound,
In lands where not a memory strays.
Nor landmark breathes of other days,
But all is new unhallowed ground.”
TENNYSON: In Mcmoriam.