The people of the Book ask thee to cause a book to descend to them from heaven: Indeed they asked Moses for an even greater (miracle), for they said: "Show us Allah in public," but they were dazed for their presumption, with thunder and lightning. Yet they worshipped the calf even after clear signs had come to them; even so we forgave them; and gave Moses manifest proofs of authority.

So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes in the morning!

But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning!

But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning,

But the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning,

Then the Blast overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves (floating on the stream of Time)! So away with the people who do wrong!

But they rejected him: Then the mighty Blast seized them, and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning.

But they insolently defied the Command of their Lord: So the stunning noise (of an earthquake) seized them, even while they were looking on.

信奉天经的人，请求你从天上降示他们一部经典。他们确已向穆萨请求过比这更重大的事，他们说：“你使我们亲眼看见真主吧。”急雷为他们的不义而袭击他们。在许多明证降临他们之后，他们又认犊为神，但我已恕饶这件事。 这曾赏赐穆萨一个明显的证据。

于是，霹雳袭击了他们，一旦之间，他们都僵卧在各人的家里。

于是，地震袭击了他们，顷刻之间，他们都僵卧在各人的家里。

呐喊声在日出时袭击了他们。

但呐喊声在早晨袭击了他们。

刑罚公道地袭击了他们，而我使他们变成了废料，不义的民众已遭毁灭了。

但他们否认他，地震就袭击了他们。顷刻之间，他们都僵卧在各人的家中。

他们曾违抗他们主的命令，故疾雷毁灭了他们，同时，他们眼见刑罚降临，