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


In Context

3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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.

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.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:6 in Other Translations

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 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.