Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And when Our punishment came upon them, they had nothing to say for themselves, and could only cry, "Verily, we were wrongdoers!"
Arthur John Arberry
and they but cried, when Our might came upon there, 'We were evildoers.'
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this: "Indeed we did wrong."
Arabic
فَمَا كَانَ دَعۡوَىٰهُمۡ إِذۡ جَاۤءَهُم بَأۡسُنَاۤ إِلَّاۤ أَن قَالُوۤا۟ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَـٰلِمِینَ ٥
Transliteration (2021)
famā kāna daʿwāhum idh jāahum basunā illā an qālū innā kunnā ẓālimīn