Matthew Henry, 17th Century English Bible Commentator, comments on Ezekiel’s words (593 to 571 BCE), regarding the leaders of Jerusalem who led their nation into defeat by the Chaldeans.
Might he also be speaking to us about our leaders?
“When hypocrites screen themselves behind the wall of an external profession, and with it think to conceal their wickedness from the eye of the world and carry on their designs the more successfully, it is hard for them to manage it with so much art by that there is some hole or other left in the wall, something that betrays them, to those who look diligently, not to be what they pretend to be.”
Be one who looks diligently.