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The disorienting experience of living away from one's homeland and the spiritual lessons it teaches. The Babylonian exile (586-538 BC) shattered Israel's assumptions about God's presence being tied to the temple and land. Yet the exile produced some of Scripture's greatest literature: Ezekiel's visions, Daniel's faithfulness, and the psalms of longing (Psalm 137). God told the exiles through Jeremiah to 'build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce' (Jeremiah 29:5). First Peter 1:1 addresses believers as 'exiles scattered,' and 2:11 as 'foreigners and exiles' in the world. Exile teaches believers to find home in God, not in earthly circumstances.