Prophet Hud - 11:48
"He said: "O Noah, descend from us in peace and blessings for you and the nations that are with you. And there are also such nations that We will make them live for a while and then a painful torment will touch them from Us."
How were the previous guilty generations destroyed?
The Spider/29:40
And We seized them all with their sins. And We sent upon some of them a mad storm, and a terrible sound seized some of them, and We drove some of them into the earth and drowned some of them. It was not Allah who wronged them; they wronged themselves.
Prophet Joseph/12:110
When the messengers gave up hope and thought that they had been deceived, then Our victory came to them. Indeed, whom We will, We will save. Our torment cannot be turned back from the guilty people.
The Pilgrimage/22:44
And the inhabitants of Median. Even Moses was denied. I gave the disbelievers a respite and then I called them to account; how is it that they do not recognize Me!
The Pilgrimage/22:45
We destroyed the inhabitants of many cities because of the injustice they committed, and what remained of them were collapsed roofs, abandoned wells and deserted palaces...