Perhaps your Lord-O Children of Israel-may have mercy on you after His retaliation if you repent and reform, and if you return to corruption and injustice, We return to your punishment and your humiliation. And We have made Hell for you and for the disbelievers in general a prison from which there is no exit ever. And in this verse and what preceded it is a warning for this Ummah against working with acts of disobedience; lest there strike it the likes of what struck the Children of Israel, for the Sunnahs (ways) of Allah are one, not changing nor shifting.