And you set up fortresses, hoping to live forever?
Ash-Shu'ara' 26:129
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وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَخْلُدُونَ
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And you set up fortresses, hoping to live forever?
And you build strong buildings, hoping you'll live forever?
And you build fortresses, as if you'll live forever.
And take up fortresses as though you will live forever?
And you construct fortresses, hoping to live forever?
And you construct fortresses, hoping to live forever?
And take for yourselves constructions [i.e., palaces and fortresses] that you might abide eternally?
"And do you get for yourselves palaces (fine buildings) as if you will live therein for ever.
And do you construct for yourselves palaces, hoping that you will live forever?
"And do ye get for yourselves fine buildings in the hope of living therein (for ever)?
And seek ye out strongholds, that haply ye may last for ever?
and erect castles hoping that you will live forever.
and erect huge palaces as though you will live for ever,
You set up structures as if you will be immortal,
Watattakhithoona masaniAAa laAAallakum takhludoona