Genesis 6:6
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Revised Version 1895
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 repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.
Deuteronomy 5:29Oh that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD shall judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he seeth that their power is gone, And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
1 Samuel 15:29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man. that he should repent.
2 Samuel 24:16And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Psalms 78:40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
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 →