Genesis Chapter 6 verse 6 Holy Bible
And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
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And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
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And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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And the LORD repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
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and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.
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Genesis 6 : 6 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - And it repented the Lord. Yinnahem; from naham, to pant, to groan; Niph., to lament, to grieve bemuse of the misery of others, also because of one's own actions; whence to repent (cf. German, rouen; English, rue: Gesenius); = "it grieved him at his heart." "Verbum nostae pravitatae accommodatum" (Chrysostom); "non est perturbatio, sod judi-cium, quo irrogatur pinna;" and again, "poenitudo Dei est mutandorum immutabilis ratio" (Augustine). "Deus est immutabilis; sed cum ii, quos eurat, mutantur, murat ipse res, prout ils expedit quos eurat" (Justin Martyr: Latin Version). "The repentance here ascribed to God does not properly belong to him, but has reference to our understanding of him (Calvin). "The repentance of God does not presuppose any variableness in his nature or purposes" Keil). "A peculiarly strong anthropathic expression, which, however, presents the truth that God, in consistency with his immutability, assumes a changed position in respect to changed man" (Lange). That he had made man on the earth. i.e. that he had created man at all, and in particular that he had settled him on the earth. And it grieved him at his heart. A touching indication that God did not hate man, and a clear proof that, though the Divine purpose is immutable, the Divine nature is not impassible.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) And it repented the Lord.--If we begin with the omniscience and omnipotence of God as our postulates, everything upon earth must be predestined and immutably fore-ordained. If we start with man's free will, everything will depend upon human choice and action. Both these sides must be true, though our mental powers are too limited to combine them. In Holy Scripture the latter view is kept more prominently in the foreground, because upon it depends human responsibility. Thus here, the overwhelming of mankind by a flood, and the subsequent abbreviation of life, is set before our eyes as painful to the Deity, and contrary to His goodwill towards men, but as necessitated by the extreme depravity of even the chosen Sethite race.
