Genesis 6:6
then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered it deeply.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 32:14And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve his people.
Deuteronomy 5:29O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons forever.
Deuteronomy 32:36For the Lord shall judge his people, 1 And shall be comforted over his servants; 1 For he saw that they were utterly weakened, 1 And failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble: 1
1 Samuel 15:29And Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.
2 Samuel 24:16And the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, and the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough now, withhold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:5-6
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. We have here a further account of the corruption of the old world. When the sons of God had matched with the daughters of men, though it was very… Read the whole commentary →