which continued to strike them for seven and eight days so that eventually you could see the people lying dead like the hollow trunks of uprooted palm-trees.
7夜8日にわたり，かれらに対し絶え間なく（嵐が）襲い，それで朽ちたナツメヤシの木のように，（凡ての）民がそこに倒れているのを，あなたは見たであろう。