The LORD said, *I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.*
Genesis 6:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart. American Standard Version (1901) And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Common English Bible The LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken. Catholic Public Domain Version repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, |
The LORD said, *I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.*
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Aravna the Yevusi.
God sent an angel to Yerushalayim to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Yevusi.
He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: *You are a Kohen forever in the order of Malki-Tzedek.*
I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't observe your word.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Yisra'el would walk in my ways!
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, *It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.*
The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
Oh that you had listened to my mitzvot! then had your shalom been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
Did Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah and all Yehudah put him to death? Didn't he fear the LORD, and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
Tell them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Yisra'el?
*How can I give you up, Efrayim? How can I hand you over, Yisra'el? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Tzevoyim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.
*For I, the LORD, don't change; therefore you, sons of Ya`akov, are not consumed.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my mitzvot always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
It grieves me that I have set up Sha'ul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my mitzvot. Shemu'el was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.
Also the Strength of Yisra'el will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
Shemu'el came no more to see Sha'ul until the day of his death; for Shemu'el mourned for Sha'ul: and the LORD grieved that he had made Sha'ul king over Yisra'el.