Abdullah Yusuf Ali: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.
M.Pickthall: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?
Amatul Rahmân Omer: And thus He reduced them to rotten chaff (and in a similar way will they be ruined who would ever make an attack to destroy Ka`bah).