violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down 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.