This terror of land loss came to Judah in 586 BC in the form of Babylonian armies. Psalm 48 records the pride and over-confidence of Israel’s view of land: it was a national possession guaranteeing divine privilege. Psalm 137 describes the shock and grief that swamped the nation when a Babylonian siege demolished Jerusalem’s walls. The entire book of Lamentations wrestles with the confusion of the loss of promise, a loss that Israel had never imagined—that a life with Yahweh and a life in the land