The people in that generation were now under the rule, control, and leadership of Babylon. Even the heathen could see and comprehend that it was by the continued disobedience to God and His will, that the church, and those who clung to her, were destroyed eternally from what they once were (40:2-3).
Watu katika kizazi hicho walikuwa sasa chini ya mwongozo, utawala, na uongozi wa Babeli. Hata mataifa [makafiri] waliweza kuona na kupambanua kuwa ilikuwa ni kwa sababu ya kuendelea kumtotii Mungu na mapenzi yake, kwamba Kanisa, na wote walioling’ang’ania, waliangamizwa milele kutoka kwa hali ambayo mwanzoni walikuwa (40:2-3).