Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
And when Our punishment came upon them, they had nothing to say for themselves, and could only cry, "Verily, we were wrongdoers!"
M. M. Pickthall
No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this: "Indeed we did wrong."
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Their only cry—when overwhelmed by Our torment—was, “We have indeed been wrongdoers.”
Safi Kaskas
Their only cry when Our punishment came to them was, “How unjust we were!”
Wahiduddin Khan
and when Our scourge fell upon them, their only cry was, We were indeed wrongdoers
Shakir
Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to them, was nothing but that they said: Surely we were unjust
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Then, there had been no calling out when Our might drew near to them, but that they said: Truly, we had been ones who are unjust.
T.B.Irving
Once Our might came to them, their appeal was merely to say: "We have been such wrongdoers!"
Abdul Hye
their plea was not uttered when Our punishment came to them but they said: “Surely, we were wrongdoers.”
The Study Quran
Their plea, when Our Might came upon them, was but to say, “Truly we were wrongdoers.
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
When Our wrath befell them, their only plea was, “Indeed, we were wrongdoers.”
Talal Itani (2012)
When Our might came upon them, their only cry was, 'We were indeed wrongdoers.'
Dr. Kamal Omar
Then their cry was not — when Our punishment came to them — except that they said: “Definitely, we had been transgressors.”
and when our scourge fell upon them, their only cry was: "We have indeed been wrongdoers."
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
So, in no way did they have a plea as Our violence came to them, except that they said, "Surely we were unjust."
Muhammad Sarwar
When Our wrath struck them, they could do nothing but confess to their sins
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
So, when Our punishment came upon them, they could say nothing but cry, .We were wrongdoers indeed
Shabbir Ahmed
They had no plea when Our Requital came to them, but they said, "We were indeed unjust, and used to oppress the vulnerable."
Dr. Munir Munshey
Then, when Our punishment landed on them, what rang on their lips was nothing but (a confession of guilt); "We really were the wrongdoers!"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
When Our punishment got them, they did not say anything except this: Truly, we did wrong
And their declaration when Our punishment came to them was only that they said, "Indeed, we were wrongdoers!"
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Then their only saying when Our punishment came to them was: "We were wicked!"
Abdel Haleem
their only cry when Our punishment came to them was, ‘How wrong we were!’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Then naught was their cry a when Our violence came upon them save that they said: verily we have been the wrong-doers
Ahmed Ali
And when Our punishment overtook them they had nothing to say except crying out: "We have indeed been sinners."
Aisha Bewley
And their only utterance, when Our violent force came down upon them, was the cry: ´Truly we have been wrongdoers!´
Ali Ünal
And there was no appeal from them when Our scourge fell upon them, except for their saying: "Indeed, we have been wrongdoers."
Ali Quli Qara'i
Then their cry, when Our punishment overtook them, was only that they said, ‘We have indeed been wrongdoers!’
Hamid S. Aziz
7:5.And their cry, when Our wrath came upon them, was only to say, "Verily, we were unjust (wrongdoers)!"
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
When Our punishment came to them, their call was only to say: “Indeed we were wrongdoers.”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
When Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this, “Indeed we did wrong.
Musharraf Hussain
and when Our scourge struck, they pleaded, “We were wrongdoers.
Maududi
And when Our scourge fell upon them their only cry was: ´We are indeed transgressors.´
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Then their only saying when Our punishment came to them was: "We were wicked!"
Mohammad Shafi
They could say nothing — when Our punishment came to them — but that, "We were indeed in the wrong!"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Then nothing came out from their mouths when Our torment came upon them but they said, 'we were unjust people.'
Their utterance when our retribution came to them was: "Indeed, we have been transgressors."
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
And when Our Might fell upon them they only said: 'We have indeed been harmdoers.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to them, was nothing but that they said: Surely we were wrongdoers
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
So their call/prayer when/if Our might/power came to them was not except that they said: "We were unjust/oppressive ."
Bijan Moeinian
The punishment came so fast upon them that they had only time to say: "How unjust we were."
Faridul Haque
Therefore they uttered nothing when Our punishment came to them, except that they said, "Indeed we were the unjust."
Sher Ali
So when our punishment came upon them, their cry was nothing but they said, `We were indeed wrongdoers !
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And when Our torment came upon them, their cry was nothing (else) but they began to say: ‘No doubt we were the wrongdoers.
Amatul Rahman Omar
So that their cry meant nothing when Our punishment came upon them except that they (apologisingly) said, `Truly we were wrong-doing people.
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
No cry did they utter when Our Torment came upon them but this: "Verily, we were Zalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc.)"
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
They had no supplication, when Our fury came upon them, other than that they said, “We indeed were those who wronged their own souls.”
Munir Mezyed
Their exclamation, when Our retribution came upon them, was nothing but that they said: "Surely, we have voluntarily and consciously abandoned the Full Knowledge of the Truth in favour of our whims.”
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Then their only call, when Our adversity reached them, was to say: we were wrongdoers.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
But their only cry when Our chastisement came upon them was, “We were indeed unjust.”
Linda “iLHam” Barto
When Our punishment overtook them, they only said, “We were certainly sinners.”
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
Once Our might came to them, their appeal was merely to say: "We have been such wrongdoers!"
Samy Mahdy
So, their call when Our adversity came to them was only that they said, " Surely we were oppressors!"
Sayyid Qutb
And when Our punishment fell upon them, all they could say was: “We have indeed been wrongdoers.â€
Thomas Cleary
And never was their cry, when Our vengeance came to them, anything but "We were wrong!"
Ahmed Hulusi
When Our torment came to them, their exclamation was no other than, “We were indeed wrongdoers.”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
So their cry, when Our punishment came unto them, was not save that theysaid: ' Verily we were unjust'
When our anger was displayed in action, nothing did they say with pining regrets and vain repentance but: "we were wrongful of actions"
Mir Aneesuddin
And when Our punishment came to them, their cry was nothing except that they said, "We were certainly unjust."
The Wise Quran
And their cry, when Our violence came upon them, was only that they said, 'Indeed, we were wrongdoers.'