which He let loose upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession; so that (if you had been there) you might have seen people lying prostrate, as though they were uprooted trunks of hollowed palm trees.
[كه خدا] آن را هفت شب و هشت روز پياپى بر آنان بگماشت: در آن [مدت‌] مردم را فرو افتاده مى‌ديدى، گويى آنها تنه‌هاى نخلهاى ميان تهى‌اند.