Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

But they denied;
so We seized them
because of what they used to earn.
97 Do the people of the towns feel secure
from Our punishment overtaking them at night
while they are asleep?
98 Do the people of the towns feel secure
from Our punishment overtaking them at midday
while they are playing around?
99 Do they feel secure from Allah’s devising?
No one feels secure from Allah’s devising
except the people who are losers.
100 Does it not dawn upon those who inherited the earth
after its [former] inhabitants
that if We wish We will punish them for their sins,
and set a seal on their hearts
so they would not hear?

101 These are the towns
some of whose accounts We recount to you.
Their apostles certainly brought them
manifest proofs,
but they were not the ones to believe
in what they had denied earlier.
Thus does Allah put a seal
on the hearts of the faithless.
102 We did not find in most of them
any [loyalty to] covenants.
Indeed We found most of them to be transgressors.