Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

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 the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."

God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds.

I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,

Are you determined to walk in the paths that evil people have always followed?

These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.

The earth will crack and shatter and split open.

The LORD says, "My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good."

I looked at the mountains---they were shaking, and the hills were rocking back and forth.

The fertile land had become a desert; its cities were in ruins because of the LORD's fierce anger.

But, LORD, you know me; you see what I do and how I love you. Drag these evil people away like sheep to be butchered; guard them until it is time for them to be slaughtered.

How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, 'God doesn't see what we are doing.' "

And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die."

The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins.

I cry out to you, LORD, because the pastures and trees are dried up, as though a fire had burned them.

Like fire they eat up the plants. In front of them the land is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them it is a barren desert. Nothing escapes them.

all human beings and animals, birds and fish. I will bring about the downfall of the wicked. I will destroy everyone, and no survivors will be left. I, the LORD, have spoken.

yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.

For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope

For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.

God did not spare the ancient world, but brought the flood on the world of godless people; the only ones he saved were Noah, who preached righteousness, and seven other people.