ٱلْإِسْرَاء : ٥

  • فَإِذَا So when
  • جَآءَ came
  • وَعۡدُ (the) promise
  • أُولَىٰهُمَا (for) the first of the two
  • بَعَثۡنَا We raised
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡ against you
  • عِبَادٗا servants
  • لَّنَآ of Ours
  • أُوْلِي those of great military might
  • بَأۡسٖ those of great military might
  • شَدِيدٖ those of great military might
  • فَجَاسُواْ and they entered
  • خِلَٰلَ the inner most part
  • ٱلدِّيَارِۚ (of) the homes
  • وَكَانَ and (it) was
  • وَعۡدٗا a promise
  • مَّفۡعُولٗا fulfilled
So when the [time of] promise came for the first of them,1 We sent against you servants of Ours - those of great military might, and they probed [even] into the homes,2 and it was a promise fulfilled.
Footnotes
1 i.e., the promised punishment for the first of their two transgressions.
2 Violating their sanctity, to kill and plunder.
So when the time for the first of the two [prophecies], the first of the two occasions for corruption, came, We roused against you servants of Ours of great might, men who are strong in war and assault, who ransacked, who came and went, seeking you out [through], [your] habitations, in the [very] midst of your homes, in order to slay you and take [others among] you captive, and it was a promise fulfilled. Their first act of corruption was their slaying of [the prophet] Zachariah. So Goliath and his army were roused against them, and they slew them and took their children captive and destroyed the Holy House [of Jerusalem].