5 The LORD saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

6 The LORD was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart.

7 So the LORD said, “I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them.”