She said, “When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.
An-Naml 27:34
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قَالَتْ إِنَّ الْمُلُوكَ إِذَا دَخَلُوا قَرْيَةً أَفْسَدُوهَا وَجَعَلُوا أَعِزَّةَ أَهْلِهَا أَذِلَّةً ۖ وَكَذَٰلِكَ يَفْعَلُونَ
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She said, “When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.
She said, "When kings enter a town, they ruin it, and they make its strongest people weak. That's what they always do.
She said, "When kings enter a town, they ruin it and humiliate its proudest people — that's what they always do.
She said, “Truly, when kings enter a town, they ruin it and reduce its most honored people to the lowest. And so they do.
She said, “When kings enter a town, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.
She said, “When kings enter a town, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.
She said, "Indeed kings - when they enter a city, they ruin it and render the honored of its people humbled. And thus do they do.
She said: "Verily kings, when they enter a town (country), they despoil it and make the most honourable amongst its people the lowest. And thus they do.
She said, “When kings enter a town, they ravage it and humiliate its notables; this is what they really do.
She said: "Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave.
She said: Lo! kings, when they enter a township, ruin it and make the honour of its people shame. Thus will they do.
She said, "Surely, when mighty kings invade a country, they despoil it and humiliate its noblest inhabitants, these men will do the same,
The Queen said: "When the kings enter a country they cause corruption in it and abase those of its people who are held in honour. This is what they are wont to do.
She said, ‘Indeed when kings enter a town, they devastate it, and make the mightiest of its people the weakest. That is how they act.
Qalat inna almulooka itha dakhaloo qaryatan afsadooha wajaAAaloo aAAizzata ahliha athillatan wakathalika yafAAaloona