"If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me." (21)

(But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin." (22)

(The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued. (23)

"And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned." (24)

How many were the gardens and springs they left behind, (25)

And corn-fields and noble buildings, (26)

And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight! (27)

Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)! (28)

And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again). (29)

We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment, (30)