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

170 As for those who hold fast to the Book
and maintain the prayer
— indeed We do not waste
the reward of those who bring about reform.
171 When We plucked the mountain
[and held it]above them as if it were a canopy
(and they thought it was about to fall on them):
‘Hold on with power to what We have given you
and remember that which is in it,
so that you may be Godwary.’
172 When your Lord took from the Children of Adam,
from their loins, their descendants
and made them bear witness over themselves,
[He said to them,] ‘Am I not your Lord?’
They said, ‘Yes indeed! We bear witness.’
[This,] lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection,
‘Indeed we were unaware of this,’
173 or lest you should say,
‘Our fathers ascribed partners [to Allah] before [us]
and we were descendants after them.
Will You then destroy us
because of what the falsifiers have done?’
174 Thus do We elaborate the signs,
so that they may come back.
175 Relate to them an account of him
to whom We gave Our signs, but he cast them off.
Thereupon Satan pursued him,
and he became one of the perverse.
176 Had We wished,
We would have surely raised him by their means,