Isaiah 22:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here— to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

Young's Literal Translation
What—to thee here? And who—to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here—a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.

King James Bible
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?

Hebrew
What
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

are you doing here,
פֹה֙ (p̄ōh)
Adverb
Strong's 6311: This place, here

and who
וּמִ֣י (ū·mî)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

authorized you
לְךָ֣ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

to carve out
חָצַ֧בְתָּ (ḥā·ṣaḇ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2672: To cut, carve, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

a tomb
קָ֑בֶר (qā·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher

for yourself
פֹ֔ה (p̄ōh)
Adverb
Strong's 6311: This place, here

here,
פֹּ֖ה (pōh)
Adverb
Strong's 6311: This place, here

to chisel
חֹצְבִ֤י (ḥō·ṣə·ḇî)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2672: To cut, carve, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

your tomb
קִבְר֔וֹ (qiḇ·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher

in the height
מָרוֹם֙ (mā·rō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4791: Altitude

and cut
חֹקְקִ֥י (ḥō·qə·qî)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2710: To hack, engrave, to enact, prescribe

your resting place
מִשְׁכָּ֥ן (miš·kān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle

in the rock?
בַסֶּ֖לַע (ḇas·se·la‘)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5553: A craggy rock

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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