God's Regret!

1 Samuel 15:10-12 (NLT2)
10  Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am sorry that I ever made Saul king, for he has not been loyal to me and has refused to obey my command.” Samuel was so deeply moved when he heard this that he cried out to the LORD all night.  Early the next morning Samuel went to find Saul. Someone told him, “Saul went to the town of Carmel to set up a monument to himself; then he went on to Gilgal.”

When God said he regretted, he was sorrow He made Saul king, was he saying he made a mistake? NO!
God’s comment was an expression of sorrow, not an admission of error. Listen to what God said in Genesis 6:5-7 (ESV)  The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord! Hallelujah!