⁵ The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very ·wicked [evil] and that ·everything they thought about [^Levery inclination of their mind/heart] was ·evil [wicked]. ⁶ He ·was sorry [regretted] he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will ·destroy [wipe/blot out; exterminate] all human beings that I ·made [created; 1:1] on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that ·crawls [creeps] on the earth and the birds of the ·air [sky; heavens], because I ·am sorry [regret] I have made them.”