When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on the earth
was and how evil their thoughts were all the time, He was sorry that he had
ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret that he
said, “I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and
birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them.” But the Lord was pleased
with Noah.
Genesis 6: 5-8