سورة النّحل

Surah Al-Nahl 16:34

The Bee · Verse 34 of 128

فَأَصَابَهُمْ سَيِّئَاتُ مَا عَمِلُوا وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

So that the evil consequences of their deeds afflicted them. And (that punishment) which they used to look down upon encompassed them.

But the evil results of their deeds overtook them, and that very (Wrath) at which they had scoffed hemmed them in.

The evil they perpetrated overtook them, and what they mocked has turned upon them.

12 more translations

Then the evil consequences of what they used to do fell upon them, and that which they were mocking overwhelmed them.

Then there be-fell them the vices of that which they had worked, and there surrounded them that whereat they had been mocking.

So the evils of their deeds struck them, and what they used to mock at surrounded them.

So the evil of what they did afflicted them, and that which they mocked encompassed them.

So the evil consequences of what they did overtook them and that which they used to mock at encompassed them.

for all the evil that they had done fell [back] upon them, and they were overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride.

Then, the evil results of their deeds overtook them, and that at which they used to mock surrounded them.

So that the evils of what they did smote them, and that which they used to mock surrounded them.

The evil consequences of their deeds afflicted them and they were surrounded by what they had mocked.

So the evil (consequences) of what they did shall afflict them and that which they mocked shall encompass them.

They have incurred the consequences of their evil works, and the very things they ridiculed came back to haunt them.

All the evil that they had done fell back upon them, and the very thing they used to mock, surrounded them.