Isaiah 22

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Isaiah 22:1-25 (KJV) 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 

God speaks to Jerusalem.  A valley of vision is what God calls Jerusalem.  Why are you on top of your houses?  What are you running from?

2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 

You are full of noise, a great disturbance, you are joyous:  you are alive but you are dead.  You have left Me and you live without Me, there is no life.

3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [which] have fled from far. 

All of your leaders or defenders or officers of the military are wandering.  They flee when they should be fighting.  Your defenders are captured and they run from Jerusalem.

4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 

Isaiah says don't look at me:  I am sad, do not try to comfort me, because of the judgment of Jerusalem.

5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 

For a day of darkness is like being in a very distressful situation and now you are in that position. You tear down your own protection and then cry out from the mountains.

6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 

Assyria has his weapons with their army and another city Moab has getting ready to fight against you.

7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

An army is preparing to fight against you. 

8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 

God saw what His people held as their security.  Judah looks at God's house as being their security.  People tend to think that what they do right will cover them when they do wrong.  

9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

You yourselves see the condition you are in.  You see there is a problem.  Still, you do not cry out to me.  You even tried to fix the problem yourself which will be a wast of time. 

10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 

You have taken matters into your own hands and you on your own are trying to protect yourselves.  You have counted what you have and you think what you do without me will work?

11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. 

You are making your own water for yourselves and you did not seek me being your God.

12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 

You need to become sorry for what you have done.

13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. 

Instead of changing, you decide to live as you desire and think nothing of your eternal life.  God does not want us to just live.  He wants us to live with meaning.  He does not want us to give up and simply die having no purpose for existing.   

14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 

 You think this is your last day, instead of repenting you say I will have a good time because you say you will die tomorrow.  You do not think that what you are going through is from God.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and say], 

Get the one who is over the money.  Tell him I want to tell him his fate.

16 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? 

So you are making plans to represent yourself after you die to be buried in a fancy graveyard.  You have people constructing you a very expensive tomb and tombstone.

17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 

18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house. 

You will not be buried as you think, Your body will be unrecognizable when I finish with you.  You will die and your burial will be shamed.

19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 

God will bring you down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 

22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 

23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 

24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 

  Verses 21-24 

I will have someone who will be the treasurer who will respond and treat people who are like me.  People will respect what he does and who he is.  He will treat people right.

25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it]. 

It seems that God will give you someone who has his heart and that person will be removed by God.  No further details are given.