عَظِيمٌ

Were it not for a predetermined decree from God, an awful punishment would have afflicted you for what you have taken

Had it not been for an ordinance of Allah which had gone before, an awful doom had come upon you on account of what ye took

Had there not been a previous ordinance from God, a severe chastisement had befallen you, for the ransom which ye took

Were it not for a book from God that had gone before, there would have touched you, for that which ye took, a mighty punishment

why not writing from Allah he preceded he touched you in what you took punishment great

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.