isited the wrong-doers with a
grievous punishment because they were given to transgression.

P: And when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, We rescued
those who forbade wrong, and visited those who did wrong with dreadful
punishment because they were evil-livers.

S: So when they neglected what they had been reminded of, We delivered
those who forbade evil and We overtook those who were unjust with an
evil chastisement because they transgressed.

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Y: When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said
to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

P: So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We
said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed!

S: Therefore when they revoltingly persisted in what they had been
forbidden, We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated.

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Y: Behold! thy Lord did declare that He would send against them, to the
Day of Judgment, those who would afflict them with grievous penalty.
Thy Lord is quick in retribution, but He is also Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.

P: And (remember) when thy Lord proclaimed that He would raise against
them till the Day of Resurrection those who would lay on them a cruel
torment. Lo! verily thy Lord is swift in prosecution and lo! verily He
is Forgiving, Merciful.

S: And when your Lord announced that He would certainly send against
them to the day of resurrection those who would subject them to severe
torment; most surely your Lord is quick to requite (evil) and most
surely He is Forgiving, Merciful.

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Y: We broke them up into sections on this earth. There are among them
some that are the righteous, and some that are the opposite. We have
tried them with both prosperity and adversity: In order that they might
turn (to us).

P: And We have sundered them in the earth as (separate) nations. Some of
them are righteous, and some far from that. And We have tried them with
good things and evil things that haply they might return.

S: And We cut them up on the earth into parties, (some) of them being
righteous and (others) of them falling short of that, and We tried them
with blessings and misfortunes that they might turn.

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Y: After them succeeded an (evil) generation: They inherited the Book,
but they chose (for themselves) the vanities of this world, saying (for
excuse): "(Everything) will be forgiven us." (Even so), if similar
vanities came their way, they would (again)