Quran 21 : 12

Then when they perceived Our torment, behold, they from it were fleeing.
فَلَمَّآ
Falammaa
أَحَسُّوا۟
Aaḥassūa
بَأْسَنَآ
Baasanaa
إِذَا
Iidhā
هُم
Hum
مِّنْهَا
Mminhā
يَرْكُضُونَ
Yarkuḍūna

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

So it was that when they perceived Our power, they were running from it.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it

Wahiduddin Khan

When they felt Our punishment coming upon them, they began to flee from it

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

And when its inhabitants perceived Our punishment, at once they fled from it

The Wise Quran

And when they perceived Our violence, behold, they ran away from it.

The Study Quran

And when they felt Our Might, behold, they ran away from it

Talal Itani (2012)

Then, when they sensed Our might, they started running away from it

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

When they sensed Our power approaching, they tried to flee from it.

T.B.Irving

When they felt Our might [approaching], they rushed headlong away from it!

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Then, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), look, they (tried to) run away from it

Sher Ali

And when they perceived OUR punishment, lo ! they began to flee from it

Shakir

So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fl

Shabbir Ahmed

And as soon as they began feeling Our Mighty Requital, behold them fleeing from it! (7:182), (16:26)

Samy Mahdy

So, when they sensed Our adversity, behold they ran away from it.

Safi Kaskas

When they felt the might of Our punishment, they fled at once.

Rashad Khalifa

When our requital came to pass, they started to run.

N J Dawood 2014

And when they felt Our might they took to their heels and ran away

Mustaqim

Then when they felt our adversity, they ran away from it.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

When the wrongdoers sensed ˹the arrival of˺ Our torment, they started to run away from their cities.

Musharraf Hussain

When they sensed our punishment coming they fled,

MunirMezyed2023

So when they felt Our Mighty Power approaching, they started to run away from their town.

Munir Mezyed

So when they felt Our Mighty Power (i.e. the chastisement) coming, they at once tried hard to flee from it.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

So, as soon as they sensed Our punishment (approaching them), they started fleeing from it

Muhammad Sarwar

When they found Our torment approaching them they started to run away from the town

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Then, when they perceived Our violence, only then did they (run) scampering out of it

Muhammad Asad

And [every time,] as soon as they began to feel Our punishing might, lo! they tried to flee from i

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

So when they felt with one of their physical senses Our might/power , then they are from it running (fleeing)

Mohammad Shafi

No sooner did they perceive Our punishment coming than they began to flee therefrom

Mir Aneesuddin

And how many a town, which was unjust, did We destroy? And We produced after them other people.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

So when they felt Our might, lo! they began to flee from it

Maududi

Then, when they perceived Our chastisement they took to their heels and fled

Linda "iLham" Barto

Yet, when they felt Our punishment, they tried to run from it.

John Medows Rodwell

And when they felt our vengeance, lo! they fled from it

Irving/Hegab

When they felt Our might [approaching], they rushed headlong away from it!

Hilali - Khan

Then, when they perceived (saw) Our Torment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

And when they felt Our Might they fled from it

Hamid S. Aziz

And when they perceived Our Might, behold, they tried to flee from it

George Sale

And when they felt our severe vengeance, behold, they fled swiftly from those cities

Fode Drame

When they felt Our fury close to them, behold here they are, running away from it (the township).

Faridul Haque

And when they tasted Our punishment, they immediately started fleeing from it

Edward Henry Palmer

And when they perceived our violence they ran away from it

Dr. Munir Munshey

When they experienced Our power, they suddenly began to flee

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Then, when they sensed Our punishment (approaching), they started fleeing fast from there

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Then, when they were conscious of Our might, that is when they make haste from it!

Dr. Kamal Omar

So as (and) when they perceived Our torment, behold: they (attempt to) flee from it

Corpus.Quran

Then when they perceived Our torment behold they from it were fleeing

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Yet, when they sensed Our punishment behold, they tried to run from it

Bijan Moeinian

When My punishment descended upon them, they tried to run from it

Bakhtiari Nejad

And when they felt Our punishment, they immediately ran away from it.

Arthur John Arberry

Then, when they perceived Our might, behold, they ran headlong out of it

Amatul Rahman Omar

No sooner did they perceive Our punishment than they began to flee from it

Ali Ünal

When they felt Our mighty punishment coming, they at once attempted to flee from it

Ali Quli Qara'i

So when they sighted Our punishment, behold, they ran away from it

Aisha Bewley

When they perceived Our violent force they ran away from it.

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Then when they got Our torment, therefore they began to flee from it.

Ahmed Hulusi

When they feel Our intensity, behold, they begin to flee!

Ahmed Ali

Whensoever they sensed Our punishment they fled from them

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Then when they perceived Our violence, lo! they were from it fleeing

Abdul Hye

When they perceived that Our Punishment was coming, behold, they fled from it.

Abdel Haleem

When they felt Our might coming upon them, see how they tried to escape it