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Surah 68. Al-Qalam, Ayah 26

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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا لَضَآلُّونَ
Falamm a raawh a q a loo inn a la da lloon a
But as soon as they beheld [the garden and could not recognize] it, they exclaimed, "Surely we have lost our way!"
  - Mohammad Asad
But when they saw the garden, they cried: "Surely we must have lost our way!
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
But when they saw it 'devastated', they cried, 'We must have lost 'our' way!
  - Mustafa Khattab
But when they saw it, they said: Lo! we are in error!
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But when they saw the (garden) they said: "We have surely lost our way: 5611
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Their fond dreams were dispelled when they found that the garden had been changed out of all recognition. It was as if they had come to some place other than their own smiling garden. Where they had expected to reap a rich harvest, there was only a howling wilderness. They reflected. Their first thought was of their own personal loss, the loss of their labour and the loss of their capital. They had plotted to keep out others from the fruits: now, as it happened, the loss was their own.

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