ٱلْأَعْرَاف : ١٤٩

  • وَلَمَّا And when
  • سُقِطَ (it was made to) fall
  • فِيٓ into
  • أَيۡدِيهِمۡ their hands
  • وَرَأَوۡاْ and they saw
  • أَنَّهُمۡ that they
  • قَدۡ (had) indeed
  • ضَلُّواْ gone astray
  • قَالُواْ they said
  • لَئِن If
  • لَّمۡ not
  • يَرۡحَمۡنَا has Mercy on us
  • رَبُّنَا Our Lord
  • وَيَغۡفِرۡ and forgive
  • لَنَا [for] us
  • لَنَكُونَنَّ we will surely be
  • مِنَ among
  • ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ the losers
And when regret overcame them1 and they saw that they had gone astray, they said, "If our Lord does not have mercy upon us and forgive us, we will surely be among the losers."
Footnotes
1 Literally, "When their hands had been descended upon," i.e., bitten by them out of severe regret.
And when they became at a loss, that is, [when] they became remorseful for having worshipped it, and ﷺ, [and] realised, that they had gone astray, thereby, and this was after Moses's return [from the communion], they said, 'Unless our Lord is merciful to us and forgives us (read both [verbs] either in the third person singular or in the second person singular), verily we shall be among the losers'.