لَقَدْ أَخَذْنَا مِیثَـقَ بَنِى إِسْرَءِیلَ وَأَرْسَلْنَآ إِلَیْهِمْ رُسُلا کُلَّمَا جَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ بِمَا لاَ تَهْوَى أَنفُسُهُمْ فَرِیقاً کَذَّبُوا وَفَرِیقاً یَقْتُلُونَ (70) وحَسِبُوا أَلاَّ تَکُونَ فِتْنَةٌ فَعَمُوا وَصَمُّوا ثمّ تَابَ اللهُ عَلَیْهِمْ ثمّ عَمُوا وَصَمُّوا کَثِیرٌ مِّنْهُمْ وَاللهُ بَصِیرٌ بِمَا یَعْمَلُونَ (71) 70- AND WE TOOK THE COVENANT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND WE SENT MESSENGERS TO THEM. WHENEVER THERE CAME TO THEM A MESSENGER NOT CONFORMING TO THEIR VAIN DESIRES (i.e. THE MESSAGE DID NOT SUIT THEIR FANCIES AND CAPRICES), THEY FALSIFIED SOME OF THEM, AND WERE SLAYING SOME OTHERS!
71- AND THEY SUPPOSED THERE WOULD BE NO TRIAL (i.e. THEY WOULD NOT BE PUNISHED), SO
THEY BECAME BLIND AN DEAF. YET ALLAH TURNED TO THEM (IN MERCY), BUT AGAIN MANY OF THEM BECAME BLIND AND DEAF; WHILE ALLAH WAS SEEING WHAT THEY WERE DOING.