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

33 And the people of Lot denied the warnings.
34 We unleashed a rain of stones upon them,
excepting the family of Lot,
whom We delivered at dawn,
35 as a blessing from Us.
Thus do We reward those who give thanks.
36 He had certainly warned them of Our punishment,
but they disputed the warnings.
37 Certainly they even solicited of him his guests,
whereat We blotted out their eyes, [saying,]
‘Taste My punishment and My warnings!’
38 Certainly early at dawn there visited them
an abiding punishment:
39 ‘Taste My punishment and My warnings!’
40 Certainly We have made the Qur’ān simple
for the sake of admonishment.
So is there anyone who will be admonished?
41 Certainly the warnings came to Pharaoh’s clan
42 who denied all of Our signs.
So We seized them with the seizing
of One [who is] all-mighty, Omnipotent.
43 Are your faithless better than those,
or have you [been granted] some immunity
in the scriptures?
44 Do they say, ‘We are a confederate league’?
45 The league will be routed
and turn its back [to flee].
46 Rather the Hour is their tryst;
and the Hour will be most calamitous and bitter.
47 Indeed the guilty are in error and madness.