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

so that you may receive His mercy?’
47 They said, ‘We take for a bad omen you
and those who are with you.’
He said, ‘Your bad omens are with Allah.
Rather you are a people being tested.’
48 There were nine persons ¹ in the city
who caused corruption in the land,
and did not bring about any reform.
49 They said, ‘[Let us] swear together by Allah
that we will attack him and his family by night.
Then we will surely tell his heir
that we were not present at the murder of his family
and we indeed speak the truth.’
50 They devised a plot,
and We [too] devised a plan,
but they were not aware.
51 So observe how was the outcome of their plotting,
as We destroyed them and all their people.
52 So there lay their houses, fallen in ruin,
because of their wrongdoing.
There is indeed a sign in that
for a people who have knowledge.
53 And We delivered those who had faith
and were Godwary.

54 And Lot, when he said to his people,
‘What! Do you commit this indecency
while you see [with your own eyes]?
55 Do you approach men with [sexual] desire