7And 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.
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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. …
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-7)Here is, I. God’s resentment of man’s wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees the folly and stubbornness of a rebellious and disobedient child, which not only angers him, but grieves him, and makes him wish he had been written childless. The expressions here used are very strange: It repented the Lord that…
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