﴿ قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ ﴾

“And they could only cry: “Oh, woe unto us! Verily, we were wrongdoers!””

They said ‘O yā is for calling attention to something woe to us! this is our destruction! We have indeed been doing wrong’ through our disbelief.