Hey there Brother
Will Kinney has written a great article on the ESV it can be found on this very site.
http://av1611.com/kjbp/articles/kinney-esv.html
Hope that may help shed some light on the ESV.
I found that I only had to go to the website of the ESV to see exactly what was wrong with it, they seem entirely obsessed with "the originals"
“But the ESV Bible also builds on the best Christian scholarship of the last 100 years. The result is a fresh and compelling Bible translation with a timeless quality, that’s trustworthy and true. . .
The result is a Bible that conveys the timeless quality of God’s Word and that remains trustworthy and true to the original words breathed out by God. . .”
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http://www.esv.org/about/intro)
“The Bible says every word was ‘breathed out by God’ (2 Timothy 3:16). For this reason, the ESV seeks to translate the original Greek and Hebrew words with the greatest possible accuracy and precision.”
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http://www.esv.org/about/intro)
“The ESV is an ‘essentially literal’ translation that seeks as far as possible to capture the precise wording of the original text and the personal style of each Bible writer. As such, its emphasis is on ‘word-for-word’ correspondence, at the same time taking into account differences of grammar, syntax, and idiom between current literary English and the original languages. Thus it seeks to be transparent to the original text, letting the reader see as directly as possible the structure and meaning of the original.”
(Preface, English Standard Version)
Problem is WE dont have the originals! they passed away
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
They are basically lying as the originals dont exist!