[2:93] And when We made a covenant with you, and raised over you the Mount, 'Take forcefully what We have given you, and listen', they said, 'We hear and disobey'; and they were made to drink the calf in their hearts on account of their unbelief. Say: 'Evil is that which your belief enjoins on you, if you are believers'.
He reiterates the telling of their excessive love for the calf, their aversion to accepting the Real, and [...], and their being told of the punishment which would overtake them for the evil they did. No counsel was useful to them (najaʿa fīhim) and no punishment led them to refrain from their disobediences (iqlāʿahim ʿan maʿāṣihim). They paid no mind to censure (lā bi'l-dhamm fīhim iḥtafalū) and did not act according to what the situation required (wa lā bi-mūjibi'l-amr ʿamalū).