Overall meaning : ‘Lord,’ said Noah, complaining to his Lord about his people’s denying him, ‘I have called my people to worship You alone night and day, but my calling them to faith has only made them turn further away from it! Indeed, each time I call them to believe in You so that You may forgive them their sins, they thrust their fingers into their ears to avoid listening to what I say to them, and they cover themselves with their garments in order not to see me, and persist in their idolatrous practices without ever repenting and arrogantly reject the truth.
‘Moreover I have invited them to the truth openly, and preached to them in public and in private. “Seek your Lord’s forgiveness,” I said. “He is ever ready to forgive His servants’ sins. If you do so, He will shower you with abundant rain from the sky, bestow upon you wealth and children and provide you in this worldly life with gardens with all sorts of fruits as well as flowing rivers.”’