﴿ فَمَا زَالَت تِّلْكَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَٰمِدِينَ ﴾

“And that cry of theirs did not cease until We caused them to become [like] a field mown down, still and silent as ashes.”

(And this their crying) i.e. saying " Alas for us! " (ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct) dead, motionless. This is the story of a township near Yemen called " Hudur ". Allah sent a prophet to them but they killed him. Allah set on them Nebuchadnezzar who exterminated them.