god promised you that one of the two parties would fall to you and you wished that the one without sting should be yours but god wanted to establish the truth by his words and cut off the root of those who denied the truth so that he might prove the truth to be true and the false to be false however much the wrongdoers might dislike it.
وإذ يعدكم الله إحدى الطائفتين أنها لكم وتودون أن غير ذات الشوكة تكون لكم ويريد الله أن يحق الحق بكلماته ويقطع دابر الكافرين ليحق الحق ويبطل الباطل ولو كره المجرمون