١٦٧. وَإِذْ تَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكَ لَيَبْعَثَنَّ عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ مَن يَسُومُهُمْ سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ۗ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَسَرِيعُ ٱلْعِقَابِ ۖ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
[167] And recall the time when your Lord declared,127 "I will set over the Israelites over and over again up to the Day of Resurrection, people who should inflict upon them the severest torment."128 Your Lord, indeed, is swift in retribution, and He is indeed also Forgiving and Merciful.
127The Arabic word (ta-azzana) "to give notice" or ,"to make known".
128Such a warning had been administered over and over again to the Israelites ever since the eighth century before the Christian era and is contained in the Books of lsaiah. Jeremiah and of the Prophets after them. Then Prophet Christ also administered the same in several of his addresses in the Gospels. Last of all, the Qur'an also gave the same warning. The fact that since then the Jewish people have always been abased and degraded at one place or the other is a clear proof that the Qur'an and those Books are really the Books of Allah.