﴿ قَالُوا۟ لَن نَّبْرَحَ عَلَيْهِ عَٰكِفِينَ حَتَّىٰ يَرْجِعَ إِلَيْنَا مُوسَىٰ ﴾

“[But] they answered: "By no means shall we cease to worship it until Moses comes back to us!"”

They said ‘We will not cease to cling to it persisting in worship of it until Moses returns to us’.