Genesis 6:7
Therefore 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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In Context
6he was greatly grieved and regretted that he had made people on the earth.
8But Noah had won the Lord’s favour.
Cross References
Psalms 24:1The earth is the Lord’s and all that it holds, the world and those who live in it.
Zephaniah 1:3I will sweep away human and animal, the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea. I will cause the wicked to stumble, and I will cut off humanity from the face of the earth, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:7-8
Mankind Threatened with Destruction. ( b. c. 2469.) 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Here is, I. God's resentment of man's wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees… Read the whole commentary →