﴿ لَوْ يَجِدُونَ مَلْجَـًٔا أَوْ مَغَٰرَٰتٍ أَوْ مُدَّخَلًۭا لَّوَلَّوْا۟ إِلَيْهِ وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ ﴾

“if they could but find a place of refuge, or any cavern, or a crevice [in the earth], they would turn towards it in headlong haste.”

(Had they but found a refuge) to run to, (or caverns) in the mountain, (or a place to enter) or an underground passage, (they surely had resorted thither swift as runaways) they would have promptly gone there.