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Talal Itani· published 2012
Your Lord has announced that, He would send against them, until the Day of Resurrection, those who would inflictterriblesuffering upon them. Your Lord is swift in retribution, yet He is Forgiving and Merciful.
Translation Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1875–1936 · published 1930
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
Sources
Translation Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·Public domain — copyright term expired
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Edward Henry Palmer1840–1882 · published 1880
and then thy Lord proclaimed that He would surely send against them till the resurrection day, those who should wreak them evil torment; verily, thy Lord is quick at following up, but, verily, He is forgiving, merciful
Sources
Translation Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
and then thy Lord declared that until the day of the resurrection, he would surely send against them (the Jews) those who should evil entreat and chastise them: for prompt is thy Lord to punish; and He is Forgiving, Merciful
Sources
Translation John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
And remember the time when thy Lord proclaimed that He would surely rise against them, till the Day of Resurrection, those who would afflict them with grievous torment. Surely, thy Lord is Quick in retribution and surely He is also Most forgiving, Merciful
Sources
Translation George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work
·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Other languages (18)Shqip · Albanian
Dhe (kujto) kur Zoti yt shpalli se do të dërgojë kundër tyre ata që do t'i shkaktojnë mundime të tmerrshme deri në Ditën e Kijametit. Me të vërtetë, Zoti yt është i shpejtë në ndëshkim dhe është Falës i Madh e Mëshirëplotë.
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
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বাংলা · Bengali
আর স্মরণ করো, যখন তোমার রব ঘোষণা করলেন যে, অবশ্যই তিনি কিয়ামত পর্যন্ত তাদের ওপর এমন লোকদেরকে পাঠাবেন , যারা তাদেরকে কঠিন শাস্তি দিতে থাকবে।(৪৭) আর নিশ্চয় তোমার রব অত্যন্ত ক্ষমাশীল, অতি দয়ালু।
Translated by the team of Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Dawah Association in Rabwah, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.2
Bosanski · Bosnian
I Gospodar tvoj obznani da će prepuštati nad njima vlast do Kijametskog dana nekom ko će ih na najgori način tlačiti. Gospodar tvoj, uistinu, brzo kažnjava, a On je, doista, i Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i milostiv je.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 2.0.4
Hrvatski · Croatian
I Gospodar tvoj obznani da će prepuštati nad njima vlast do Sudnjega dana nekom tko će ih na najgori način tlačiti. Gospodar tvoj, uistinu, brzo kažnjava, a On je, doista, i Onaj Koji oprašta grijehe i milostiv je.
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Fulfulde · Fulani
siftor tuma nde Joomi maa anndinnoo (won de) ma o nulu e maɓɓe haa Ñalnde Darngal on meeɗinoowo ɓe lepte bon ɗe. Pellet, Joomi maa ko jaawuɗe lepte, pellet kadi, ko O jaafotooɗoo, jurmotooɗo.
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ქართული · Georgian
და აი გამოაცხადა შენმა უფალმა: «აუცილებლად მოვავლენ მათზე [იუდეველებზე] აღდგომის დღემდე მათ, ვინც მათ მძიმე სასჯელს მიაყენებს». ჭეშმარიტად, შენი უფალი სწრაფია სასჯელში და, მართლაც, ის მიმტევებელი, შემწყალებელია!
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.7
Deutsch · German
Und (gedenke,) als dein Herr ankündigte, Er werde ganz gewiss gegen sie bis zum Tag der Auferstehung jemanden schicken, der ihnen eine böse Qual auferlegt. Wahrlich, dein Herr ist ja schnell im Bestrafen, aber Er ist auch wahrlich allvergebend und barmherzig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.15
Ελληνικά · Greek
Και (ανάφερε, ω, Μωχάμμαντ) όταν ο Κύριός σου δήλωσε ξεκάθαρα ότι θα τους στέλνει μέχρι την Ημέρα της Ανάστασης, εκείνους που θα τους ταλαιπωρήσουν με τρομερή τιμωρία. Πράγματι, ο Κύριός σου είναι Γρήγορος στην τιμωρία, και είναι επίσης Γαφούρ (Αυτός που συγχωρεί τα πάντα) και Ραχείμ (Πολυεύσπλαχνος).
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
हिन्दी · Hindi
और याद करो, जब आपके पालनहार ने घोषणा कर दी कि वह क़ियामत के दिन तक, उन (यहूदियों) पर, ऐसा व्यक्ति अवश्य भेजता रहेगा, जो उन्हें घोर यातना दे।[62] निःसंदेह आपका पालनहार शीघ्र दंड देने वाला है और निःसंदेह वह अति क्षमाशील, अत्यंत दयावान है।
Translated by Azizul Haq Al-Omari
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.5
Italiano · Italian
E quando il tuo Dio annunciò di mandare su di loro chi li farà soffrire, fino al Giorno del Giudizio, la peggiore punizione: in verità il tuo Dio è rapido nel punire, e in verità è Perdonatore, Misericordioso.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Lietuvių · Lithuanian
167. Ir (atminkite) kai Jūsų Viešpats paskelbė, kad Jis tikrai siųs prieš juos (t. y. judėjus) iki Prikėlimo dienos tuos, kurie kels jiems žeminančią kančią. Iš tiesų, jūsų Viešpats yra Greitas Atsilyginti (nepaklusniesiems, nuodėmingiems) ir žinoma, Jis yra Dažnai Atleidžiantis, Gailestingiausiasis (paklusniesiems ir tiems, kurie maldauja Allaho Atleidimo).
Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.0
Русский · Russian
И вот твой Господь возвестил, что непременно будет насылать на них вплоть до Дня воскресения тех, кто подвергнет их суровому наказанию. Воистину, твой Господь скор в возмездии, и воистину, Он — прощающий, милующий.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.1
Српски · Serbian
И Господар твој обзнани да ће да препусти власт над њима до Судњег дана неком ко ће да их тлачи тешком казном. Твој Господар, уистину, брзо кажњава, а Он, заиста, и опрашта грехе и милостив је.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.4
Kiswahili · Swahili
Na pale alipotangaza Mola wako Mlezi kwamba hakuna shaka atawaletea watu ambao watawaadhibu kwa adhabu mbaya mpaka Siku ya Kiyama. Hakika Mola wako Mlezi ni Mwepesi wa kuadhibu, na bila ya shaka ni Mwenye maghfira, na Mwenye kurehemu.
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Svenska · Swedish
Och din Herre förkunnade att han ända till uppståndelsens dag ska sända dem folk som utsätter dem för svårt lidande. Din Herre är snabb att straffa, men han är också ständigt förlåtande, barmhärtig.
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From QuranEnc.com, version 1.0.2
Türkçe · Turkish
O vakit Rabbin onlara; Kıyamet gününe kadar üzerlerine mutlaka kendilerini en kötü azaba uğratacak kimseler göndereceğini bildirdi. Rabbinin ceza vermesi çok hızlıdır. Şüphesiz O; çokça bağışlayan, çokça merhamet edendir.
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اردو · Urdu
اور وه وقت یاد کرنا چاہیئے کہ آپ کے رب نے یہ بات بتلا دی کہ وه ان یہود پر قیامت تک ایسے شخص کو ضرور مسلط کرتا رہے گا[1] جو ان کو سزائے شدید کی تکلیف پہنچاتا رہے گا، بلاشبہ آپ کا رب جلدی ہی سزا دے دیتا ہے اور بلاشبہ وه واقعی بڑی مغفرت اور بڑی رحمت واﻻ ہے۔[2]
Translated by Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi, developed under the supervision of the Rowwad Translation Center. The original translation is available for the purpose of expressing opinion, evaluation, and continuous development.
From QuranEnc.com, version 1.1.3
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Talal Itani2012 Then, when they neglected what they were reminded of, We saved those who prohibited evil, and We seized those who did wrong with a terrible punishment, because of their sinfulness.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But when they forgot what they had been reminded of, we saved those who forbade evil, but we overtook those who did wrong with punishment; - evil was the abomination that they did
John Medows Rodwell1861 And when they forgot their warnings, we delivered those who had forbidden evil; and we inflicted a severe chastisement on those who had done wrong, for that they were evil doers
George Sale1734 And when they forgot all that with which they had been admonished, We saved those who forbade evil and We seized the transgressors with a severe punishment because they were rebellious
Talal Itani2012 Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, "Be despicable apes."
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed
Edward Henry Palmer1880 but when they rebelled against what they were forbidden, we said to them, 'Become ye apes, despised and spurned
John Medows Rodwell1861 But when they proudly persisted in that which was forbidden, we said to them, "Become scouted apes
George Sale1734 And when they insolently rebelled against that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, 'Be ye apes despised
Talal Itani2012 And We scattered them into communities on earth. Some of them righteous, and some of them short of that. And We tested them with fortunes and misfortunes, so that they may return.
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 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
Edward Henry Palmer1880 We cut them up in the earth into nations. Of them are the righteous, and of them are the reverse of that; we have tried them with good things and with bad things; haply they may return
John Medows Rodwell1861 And we have divided them upon the Earth as peoples: some of them are upright and some are otherwise; and by good things and by evil things have we proved them, to the intent that they might return to us
George Sale1734 And We broke them up into separate peoples in the earth. Among them are those that are righteous and among them are those that are otherwise. And We tried them with good things and bad things that they might return to good
Talal Itani2012 They were succeeded by generations who inherited the Scripture and chose the materials of this world, saying, "We will be forgiven." And should similar materials come their way, they would again seize them. Did they not make a covenant to uphold the Scripture, and to not say about God except the truth? Did they not study its contents? But the Home of the Hereafter is better for the cautious; will you not understand?
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall1930 And a generation hath succeeded them who inherited the scriptures. They grasp the goods of this low life (as the price of evil-doing) and say: It will be forgiven us. And if there came to them (again) the offer of the like, they would accept it (and would sin again). Hath not the covenant of the Scripture been taken on their behalf that they should not speak aught concerning Allah save the truth? And they have studied that which is therein. And the abode of the Hereafter is better, for those who ward off (evil). Have ye then no sense
Edward Henry Palmer1880 But there succeeded them successors who inherited the Book! They take the goods of this lower world and say, 'It will be forgiven us.' But if the like goods came to them they would take them too! Was there not taken from them a covenant by the Book, that they should not say against God aught but the truth? Yet they study therein! But the abode of the future life is better for those who fear - do ye not then understand
John Medows Rodwell1861 And they have had successors to succeed them: they have inherited the Book: they have received the passing good things of this lower world, and say, "It will be forgiven us." Yet if the like good things came to them again, they would again receive them. But hath there not been received on their part a covenant through the Scripture that they should speak nought of God but the truth? And yet they study its contents. But the mansion of the next world hath more value for those who fear God - Do ye not then comprehend
George Sale1734 Then there came after them an evil generation who inherited the Book. They take the paltry goods of this low world and say, 'It will be forgiven us.' But if there came to them similar goods again, they would take them. Was not the covenant of the Book taken from them, that they would not say of God anything but the truth? And they have studied what is therein. And the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Will you not then understand
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Derived measure: mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the
lowercased word sets of the 5 renderings above —
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0.644
Share of measured verses above it
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Verses above it
2,079
Verses measured
6,236
Talal Itani · Edward Henry Palmer0.64
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · John Medows Rodwell0.63
John Medows Rodwell · George Sale0.61
Talal Itani · George Sale0.59
Talal Itani · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.58
Talal Itani · John Medows Rodwell0.57
Edward Henry Palmer · Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall0.53
Edward Henry Palmer · George Sale0.51
Edward Henry Palmer · John Medows Rodwell0.49
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · George Sale0.45
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Source Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Parsed structurally from the EPUB: an h3 names the surah, one p per verse with its number in its own span. An unnumbered p is the basmala and is not a verse, except in surah 1 where the basmala IS verse 1. 112 unnumbered paragraphs were found, which is 114 surahs less surah 1 and surah 9. Text is stored VERBATIM: NFC normalisation and XML entity unescaping only, because CC BY-ND forbids modification.
CLEARED on a licence read first-hand from the translator's own download page, not from an aggregator. Tanzil also hosts this translation, but under a blanket "non-commercial purposes only" term that directs the user to the translator or publisher for permission - a hosting disclaimer, not a grant - so the grant was taken from the licensor directly. The "God" edition was ingested; ClearQuran also publishes an "Allah" edition, differing in how the divine name is rendered, which is not ingested.
CLEARED ON THE WORK, WITH TWO RECORDED CAVEATS ON THIS COPY. (1) Rights basis is the expired copyright term, NOT the redistributing repository's licence. That repository dedicates its contents to the public domain under the Unlicense while also redistributing plainly in-copyright translations (Abdel Haleem, Saheeh International, The Study Quran), so it is dedicating rights it cannot hold and its blanket grant is not relied upon here. (2) The file declares its own upstream as tanzil.net, and Tanzil attaches a non-commercial condition to its TRANSLATION distributions, though not to its Qur'anic text. Since Pickthall's copyright has expired, nobody holds rights in these words and no licence is required from anyone; Tanzil's terms are a contract binding those who download from Tanzil, which we did not. The chain is nonetheless not spotless and Anwar may prefer a clean digitisation of the 1930 printing. NOT VERIFIED: that this digital text matches the 1930 first printing rather than a later revised edition. No page images were collated. Recorded as unverified rather than presented as established. SERVED TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE CITED FILE AT ONE VERSE, 37:97: the file reads "red-hotfire" (a glued token, also in Gutenberg #16955); the served row reads "red-hot fire", restored 2026-09-13 from Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London: George Allen & Unwin, printed for Alfred A. Knopf; 1930), p. 460, XXXVII 97 - scan archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.216140, PDF page 475; banked data/derivation-sources/pickthall-1930-dli-2015.216140-text.pdf (sha256 70e81146c97fa3a590243a82e04e349108546074787e2551a78c616202138870) on Anwar Malik's grant.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is not stated by the redistributor and the printing is unverified. No statement of purpose is recorded for Palmer because none was sourced from his own preface in this pass; nothing is asserted on his behalf.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. TWO edition caveats. (1) The upstream is not stated by the redistributor. (2) Rodwell's own edition PRESENTS THE SURAHS IN HIS OWN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, not the mushaf order — he says so in his preface. This digital text is keyed to mushaf order, so it derives from a restored-order printing (such as the Everyman edition) rather than from Rodwell's own arrangement. Which printing is not stated and has not been established.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 verses, keyed to mushaf order. The
bismillah is not fused into ayah 1: 1:1 carries it and no other verse
does. Verified against content check C3 at ingest.
CLEARED ON THE WORK. Term expired by every measure. The digital edition's upstream is NOT STATED by the redistributor, so the printing it represents is unverified; Sale's text was reprinted and re-edited many times between 1734 and 1900. Recorded as unverified rather than assumed to be the first edition.
Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Parallel edition, held in ayah_text_variants. It sits alongside the Uthmani spine for search normalisation and is never used to correct it.