Ezekiel 16:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

Young's Literal Translation
And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in—nor shall it be!

King James Bible
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

Hebrew
You took
וַתִּקְחִ֣י (wat·tiq·ḥî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

some of your garments
מִבְּגָדַ֗יִךְ (mib·bə·ḡā·ḏa·yiḵ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

and made
וַתַּֽעֲשִׂי־ (wat·ta·‘ă·śî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

colorful
טְלֻא֔וֹת (ṭə·lu·’ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine plural
Strong's 2921: To cover with pieces, to spot, variegate

high places for yourself,
בָּמ֣וֹת (bā·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1116: An elevation

and on them
עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

you prostituted yourself.
וַתִּזְנִ֖י (wat·tiz·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

Such things should not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

have happened;
בָא֖וֹת (ḇā·’ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

never should
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

they have occurred!
יִהְיֶֽה׃ (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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