ocr: under water - Genesis / Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. (Gen. 7:4) The downward cycle of sin and rebellion continued until, finally. God reached a fateful Jecision. Genesis 6 records it in what is surely the most poignant sentence ever written, "The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain." - It - seemed clear that the human experiment had failed. God, who had taken such pride in his creation, was novY ready to destroy i ...