Bible Verses About The Deluge: Sent as a punishment for the extreme wickedness of man

Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only.

Adonai regretted that he had made humankind on the earth; it grieved his heart.

Adonai said, “I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the whole earth; and not only human beings, but animals, creeping things and birds in the air; for I regret that I ever made them.”

The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence.

God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.

God said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.