Isaiah 22:16 — compare English translations
Compare translationsIsaiah 22:16 in 3 English versions, beneath the original-language interlinear. Each original word links to its lexicon entry, so you can weigh the renderings against the morphology yourself. Full word study →
מַה
mâh
H4100
what
לְּךָ֥
פֹה֙
pôh
H6311
here
וּמִ֣י
mîy
H4310
who
לְךָ֣
פֹ֔ה
pôh
H6311
here
כִּֽי
kîy
H3588
that
חָצַ֧בְתָּ
châtsab
H2672
to hew
לְּךָ֛
פֹּ֖ה
pôh
H6311
here
קָ֑בֶר
qeber
H6913
grave
חֹצְבִ֤י
châtsab
H2672
to hew
מָרוֹם֙
mârôwm
H4791
height
קִבְר֔וֹ
qeber
H6913
grave
חֹקְקִ֥י
châqaq
H2710
to decree
בַסֶּ֖לַע
çelaʻ
H5553
rock
מִשְׁכָּ֥ן
mishkân
H4908
dwelling place
לֽוֹ
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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World English Bible Public Domain
"What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
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King James Version Public Domain
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
‘What to you here, and who to you here, that you have hewn a tomb for yourself here, hewing one’s tomb on high, carving a dwelling for oneself in the rock?
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).