فَمَا كَانَ دَعْوَاهُمْ إِذْ جَاءَهُم بَأْسُنَا إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ
Fama kana daAAwahum ith jaahum ba/suna illa an qaloo inna kunna thalimeena
Then not was their plea when came to them Our punishment except that they said, "Indeed, we were wrongdoers."
And when Our punishment came upon them, they had nothing to say for themselves, and could only cry, "Verily, we were wrongdoers!"
When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this: "Indeed we did wrong."
No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers.
Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to them, was nothing but that they said: Surely we were wrongdoers.
And their declaration when Our punishment came to them was only that they said, "Indeed, we were wrongdoers!"