Genesis 6:6

he was greatly grieved and regretted that he had made people on the earth.

Open English Bible (UK)

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

5When the Lord saw that people’s wickedness was increasing in the world, and that the trend of their thoughts was at all times toward evil,

7Therefore the Lord said, ‘I will destroy all living beings from off the ground – people, animals, creeping things, and birds – because I regret that I have made them.’

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Cross References

Psalms 78:40But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness,

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 →

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