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My Hi-lite:   Ezekiel 22:25  There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 22:23

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[24] Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Instead THERE IS A CONSPIRACY among the Prophets, those who "claim" to represent Him.

[25] There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

Conspiracy = qesher, keh'-sher, Hebrew 7195; from Hebrew 7194 (qashar); an (unlawful) alliance :- confederacy, conspiracy, treason.

Bind = qashar, kaw-shar', Hebrew 7194; a primitive root; to tie, physical (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league) :- bind (up), (make a) conspire (-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work [treason].

So here's a little excerpt from that letter:

From The Translator's To The Reader

Now the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bare a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: they must first get a License in writing before they may use them and to get that, they must approve themselves to their Confessor that is to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it seemed too much to Clement the 8. that there should be any License granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruled and frustrated the grant of Pius the fourth. So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture, (Lucifugx Scripturarum, as Tertullian speaketh) that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the License of their own Bishops and Inquisitors. Yes so unwilling they are to communicate the Scriptures to the peoples understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced them to translate it into English against their wills. This seems to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both. Sure we are, that it is not he that had good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touch-stone, but he that had the counterfeit; neither is it the true man that shunned the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be reproved: neither is it the plain dealing Merchant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the meter-yard brought in place, but he that uses deceit, But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation.

Amos spells it out in detail:

Amos 8:11
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

[12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.