38. Surah Sad, Verse 57

This! So let them taste it – boiling water and scalding pus,

This is so, and let them taste a boiling drink and bitter food.

This, then, - so let them taste it - the drink of burning distress and ice-cold wind. (Distress they caused others and insensitivity they showed toward oppression and injustice (78:25)).

This! So let them taste it: scalding water and purulence,

This is so, and let them taste what is boiling and dark.

What they taste therein will be hellish drinks and bitter food.

There will be boiling water for them and cold, clammy, fetid drink to taste,

This - so let them taste it - is scalding water and purulence.

This, so let them taste it: burning despair and ice-cold darkness

Here is a boiling and an ice-cold draught, so let them taste it,

All this (is for them); so let them taste boiling water and pus,*

As for tasting, they shall experience it in the form of a decoction of the offensive suppurating burns boiling hot and/or ice cold.

They will be given boiling water….

This is so! Then let them taste it - a boiling fluid and dirty wound discharges.

Yea, such! - then shall they taste it,- a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold!-

Let them then taste this: boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus,

Let them taste this: hot water and pus,

all this will be theirs: let them taste it- a scalding, dark, foul fluid,

All this; so let them taste it - boiling water and pus,

This, - so let them taste it!- hot water, and pus,

This (shall be so); then shall they taste it, boiling and intensely cold.

This is (their reward); so let them taste it: scalding (water) and constantly (overflowing) pus,

This let them taste, to wit, scalding water, and corruption flowing from the bodies of the damned,

Yes like this! (And) then they shall taste it— A boiling fluid, and the murky discharge of dirty wounds!

This is (what the disbelievers will have), so let them suffer from it a burning despair and intensely cold and stinking drink.

This; let them taste it: scalding water and pus,