6And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.


In Context

3 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

5 And Jehovah 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.

6 And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

Genesis 6:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:6The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:6It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6And the LORD repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself — unto His heart.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.