Genesis 6:7
The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
8But Noah found favor in the LORD’s eyes.
Cross References
Psalms 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Jeremiah 12:3But you, LORD, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Zephaniah 1:3I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface 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 →