Genesis 6:7
So he said, “I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that scurry across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I regret that I made them.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
6Yahweh was sorry that he had made people.
8But Yahweh was pleased with Noah.
Cross References
Psalms 24:1The earth and everything in it belongs to Yahweh; all the people in the world belong to him, too,
Proverbs 10:27If you revere Yahweh, you will live for a long time; but wicked people die before they become old.
Isaiah 27:11The Israeli people are like [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires under their cooking pots. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
Jeremiah 12:3But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I do and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those wicked people, like people drag away sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
Zephaniah 1:3I will sweep away people and animals. I will sweep away birds and fish. I will get rid of wicked people; there will be no more wicked [HYP] people on the earth.”
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 →