(128) Do you construct on every elevation a sign,[1055] amusing yourselves,
[1055]- i.e., a symbol or indication of their wealth and power. They used to build lofty structures along the road to be seen by all who passed by.
— الترجمة الإنجليزية - صحيح انترناشونال
 128. "Do you build high palaces on every high place, while you do not live in them?
— الترجمة الإنجليزية
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

Do you build on every prominence a sign, sporting? (i.e., huge prominence inspiring fear)

— Dr. Ghali - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

"Do you build high palaces on every high place, while you do not live in them?

— Muhsin Khan - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

Build ye on every high place a monument for vain delight?

— Pickthall - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

"Do ye build a landmark on every high place to amuse yourselves?

— Yusuf Ali - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves,

— Sahih International - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

(26:128) What, you build a monument on every hill merely for fun0

— Abul Ala Maududi(With tafsir) - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

How can you be so vain that you set up monuments on every high place?

— Abdul Haleem - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

Do you erect on every height a monument, having no sound purpose,

— Mufti Taqi Usmani - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

˹Why˺ do you build a landmark on every high place in vanity,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran - English translation
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ

˹Why˺ do you build a landmark on every high place in vanity,

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab - English translation
Do you build a landmark on every high place for no purpose?
— الترجمة الإنجليزية - مركز رواد الترجمة
128. “Why are you building upon every elevated, overlooking place a building as a marker, unnecessarily, without any benefit in it for you in the world or the afterlife?”
— الترجمة الإنجليزية للمختصر في تفسير القرآن الكريم
‘Do you build a landmark on every high place, in vain endeavour,
— ترجمة معاني القرآن الكريم - عادل صلاحي