November 15 (Lamentations 2–3; Psalm 119:57–64; 2 Corinthians 11–13)

Through the ESV Bible in a Year with Ray Ortlund

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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❖ Follow along with today's reading: www.esv.org/Lamentations2–3;Psalm119:57–64;2Corinthians11–13 ❖ The English Standard Version (ESV) is an 'essentially literal' translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors, the ESV Bible emphasizes 'word-for-word' accuracy, literary excellence, and depth of meaning. ❖ To learn more about the ESV and other audio resources, please visit www.ESV.org

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0:00.0	A reading from the book of Lamentations.
0:03.9	How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud.
0:09.4	He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel.
0:13.6	He has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
0:17.6	The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob. In his wrath he has broken
0:23.6	down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought down to the ground in dishonor,
0:29.7	the kingdom and its rulers. He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel. He has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the
0:39.8	enemy. He has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. He has bent his bow like an
0:48.0	enemy, with his right hand set like a foe, and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of
0:56.9	Zion. He has poured out his fury like fire. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel.
1:05.7	He has swallowed up all its palaces. He has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the
1:12.5	daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid
1:20.1	in ruins his meeting place. The Lord has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath,
1:26.4	and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
1:31.8	The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary.
1:35.8	He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces.
1:40.1	They raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on the day of festival.
1:49.2	The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion.
1:51.7	He stretched out the measuring line.
1:54.2	He did not restrain his hand from destroying.
1:57.1	He caused rampart and wall to lament.
1:59.0	They languished together.
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