Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But whenever We removed the plague from them, giving them time to make good their promise, lo, they would break their word
Arthur John Arberry
But when We removed from them the wrath unto a term that they should come to, lo, they broke their troth
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But every time We removed the penalty from them according to a fixed term which they had to fulfil,- Behold! they broke their word
Arabic
فَلَمَّا كَشَفۡنَا عَنۡهُمُ ٱلرِّجۡزَ إِلَىٰۤ أَجَلٍ هُم بَـٰلِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمۡ یَنكُثُونَ ١٣٥
Transliteration (2021)
falammā kashafnā ʿanhumu l-rij'za ilā ajalin hum bālighūhu idhā hum yankuthūn