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


In Context

3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

4 In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

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

7 And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

8 But Noah found favour 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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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