Mocked were (many) apostle before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
walaqadi ustuhzi’a birusulin min qablika fahaaqa billaziina sakhiruu minhum maa kaanuu bihi yastahzi’uuna
(Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked) the messengers who came before you, O Muhammad, were mocked by their people just as your people are mocking you, (but that whereat they mocked) the chastisement they mocked; it is also said that this means: they were chastised because of their mockery, (surrounded) was decreed and came down upon (those who scoffed at them) those who mocked the prophets.