And we warn them of the punishment before its descent. Or a warning that comes in their punishment for those after them on a day of misfortune, on a day of calamity. And it was read: on a day of misfortune, like his saying: on days of misfortune. Continuous, it has persisted upon them and lasted until it destroyed them. Or it has persisted upon all of them, their great ones and their small ones, until not a single soul remained from them. And it was on a Wednesday at the end of the month when it does not rotate. And it is permissible that by continuous he means: the severe bitterness and ugliness that pulls people out of their places. And they were lining up, taking each other's hands. They would enter into the valleys and dig holes to hide in them, and it would pull them and throw them down and break their necks, as if they were the trunks of palm trees that have been uprooted. This means that they were falling to the ground dead, and they were long, large corpses, as if they were the trunks of palm trees, which are their roots without branches, uprooted: pulled out from their planting. And it was said: they were likened to the trunks of palm trees because the wind would cut off their heads, leaving behind bodies without heads. And the description of palm trees was mentioned in the wording, and if it were taken in meaning, it would be feminine, as he said: trunks of empty palm trees.