وَأَقْسَمُوا۟
بِٱللَّهِ
جَهْدَ
أَيْمَـٰنِهِمْ
لَئِن
جَآءَهُمْ
نَذِيرٌۭ
لَّيَكُونُنَّ
أَهْدَىٰ
مِنْ
إِحْدَى
ٱلْأُمَمِ ۖ
فَلَمَّا
جَآءَهُمْ
نَذِيرٌۭ
مَّا
زَادَهُمْ
إِلَّا
نُفُورًا
٤٢
[The idolaters] swore their most solemn oath that, if someone came to warn them, they would be more rightly guided than any [other] community, but when someone did come they turned yet further away,
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem