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

striking their faces and their backs,
[saying], ‘Taste the punishment of the burning.
51 That is because of what your hands have sent ahead,
and because Allah is not tyrannical to the servants.’
52 Like the precedent of Pharaoh’s clan
and those who were before them,
who defied Allah’s signs,
so Allah seized them for their sins.
Indeed Allah is all-strong, severe in retribution.
53 That is because Allah never changes a blessing
that He has bestowed on a people
unless they change what is in their own souls,
and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing:
54 Like the precedent of Pharaoh’s clan
and those who were before them,
who denied the signs of their Lord;
so We destroyed them for their sins,
and We drowned Pharaoh’s clan;
and they were all wrongdoers.
55 Indeed the worst of beasts in Allah’s sight
are those who are faithless;
so they will not have faith.
56 — Those with whom you made a treaty,
and who violated their treaty every time,
and who are not Godwary.
57 So if you confront them in battle,
treat them [in such a wise] as to disperse
those who are behind them,
so that they may take admonition.
58 And if you fear treachery from a people,