S:  And certainly a lasting chastisement overtook them in the morning.

054.039 Y:  “So taste ye My Wrath and My Warning.”

P:  Now taste My punishment after My warnings!

S:  So taste My chastisement and My warning.

054.040 Y:  And We have indeed made the Qur’an easy to understand and remember:  then is there any that will receive admonition?

P:  And in truth We have made the Qur’an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?

S:  And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who will mind?

054.041 Y:  To the People of Pharaoh, too, aforetime, came Warners (from Allah).

P:  And warnings came in truth unto the house of Pharaoh

S:  And certainly the warning came to Firon’s people.

054.042 Y:  The (people) rejected all Our Signs; but We seized them with such Penalty (as comes) from One Exalted in Power, able to carry out His Will.

P:  Who denied Our revelations, every one.  Therefore We grasped them with the grasp of the Mighty, the Powerful.

S:  They rejected all Our communications, so We overtook them after the manner of a Mighty, Powerful One.

054.043 Y:  Are your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they?  Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?

P:  Are your disbelievers better than those, or have ye some immunity in the scriptures?

S:  Are the unbelievers of yours better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the scriptures?

054.044 Y:  Or do they say:  “We acting together can defend ourselves”?

P:  Or say they:  We are a host victorious?

S:  Or do they say:  We are a host allied together to help each other?

054.045 Y:  Soon will their multitude be put to flight, and they will show their backs.

P:  The hosts will all be routed and will turn and flee.

S:  Soon shall the hosts be routed, and they shall turn (their) backs.

054.046 Y:  Nay, the Hour (of Judgment) is the time promised them (for their full recompense):  And that Hour will be most grievous and most bitter.

P:  Nay, but the Hour (of doom) is their appointed tryst, and the Hour will be more wretched and more bitter (than their earthly failure).

S:  Nay, the hour is their promised time, and the hour shall be most grievous and bitter.

054.047 Y:  Truly those in sin are the ones straying in mind, and mad.

P:  Lo! the guilty are in error and madness.

S:  Surely the guilty are in error and distress.

054.048 Y:  The Day they will be dragged through the Fire on their faces, (they will hear:) “Taste ye the touch of Hell!”

P:  On the day when they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces (it is said unto them):  Feel the touch of hell.

S:  On the day when they shall be dragged upon their faces into the fire; taste the touch of hell.