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Jeremiah 2 · Preschool

God Gives Good Water

Name Date

Color the spring of water. God is like fresh water!

Can you find these in the picture? Circle each one!

Bible Verse

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

Take It Home

Read the verse aloud. Then explain that God is like a spring of fresh water. He gives us what we need. Let's thank God for water and for his love.

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Jeremiah 2 · Kindergarten

Living Water

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace each word with your pencil.

WATER
GOD
GOOD
LOVE
Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

Jeremiah 2:4 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each word to its picture.

WATER
LOVE
WELL
GOOD

Mini Maze

Help find the way through the maze.

Draw It

Draw a spring of fresh water.

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What does water do for us?
  • Who gives us good things?

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Jeremiah 2 · Grade 1

God Is the Spring

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace the words and the verse.

SPRING
WATER
WORD
HEAR
Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

Jeremiah 2:4 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each sentence to its picture.

God is like a spring of living water.
The people dug broken cisterns.
God planted them like a good vine.
Hear God's word.
God remembered their love.

Living Water

Write the number 1 to 4 in each circle to show the right order.

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase

I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed

I remember for you the kindness of your youth

I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness

Draw a spring of fresh water.

Memory Verse

“Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!”

Jeremiah 2:4 (WEB)

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What did God remember?
  • What is a cistern?
  • What would you like to say to God about this chapter?

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Jeremiah 2 · Grade 2

A Spring and a Broken Tank

Name Date

Read the Story

God remembered when his people loved him. They followed him in the wilderness. Then they turned away. They went after gods that were not real.

God said he was like a spring of living water. The people left the spring. They dug tanks that leaked. A leaky tank cannot hold water. Only God can give what people need.

Memory Verse

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)

Show What You Know

Circle the right answer, or write it on the lines.

  1. What did God remember?

  2. Where did they follow him?

    When his people loved himIn the wildernessTanks that leaked

  3. What is God like?

  4. What did the people dig?

    Tanks that leakedOnly GodA spring of living water

  5. Who can give what we need?

    A spring of living waterOnly GodWhen his people loved him

Word Search

Find and circle each word. Words go across and down.

MHEIIWPPCDKLIVINGEGWISARIVJLOECPITIRAFCMERDNONGJPLDIEODCISTERNSAHOAOMFJGWATERSIHB
  • CISTERNS
  • SPRING
  • WATERS
  • LIVING
  • VINE
  • LAND

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why can't a broken tank help?
  • What helps you remember God every day?

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Jeremiah 2 · Grade 3

Two Wrong Things

Name Date

Read the Story

God sent Jeremiah to speak to Jerusalem. God remembered the kindness of their youth. Long ago they loved him like a bride. They followed him in the wilderness.

God brought them into a good land full of fruit. But the people forgot him. They went after worthless things. Even the priests did not ask where God was.

God said his people did two wrong things. They left him, the spring of living waters. Then they dug their own cisterns. A cistern is a hole that holds water. But theirs were broken and could not hold water.

Memory Verse

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)

Answer the Questions

  1. What did God remember about his people?

  2. Where did God bring them?

  3. What did even the priests not ask?

  4. What is a cistern?

  5. What was wrong with their cisterns?

Living Water

Write what happened in each box.

1
2
3
4

Word Search

Find each word. Words go across, down, and diagonally.

HPLLIVINGYHLOYUEGKWWRWATERSCBHRVVVCNSPRINGFIPWBUDVINECRCISTERNSYFHLHFFOANLANDMTOI
  • CISTERNS
  • SPRING
  • WATERS
  • LIVING
  • VINE
  • LAND

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why is God like living water?
  • Why did the priests fail?

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Jeremiah 2 · Grade 4

Broken Cisterns

Name Date

Read and Think

God told Jeremiah to proclaim a message in the ears of Jerusalem. God remembered the kindness of his people's youth, when they loved him like a bride and followed him through the wilderness. Israel was holy to God, like the first fruits of a harvest.

But their fathers had gone far from God and walked after worthless things. God had brought them into a plentiful land, yet they defiled it. The priests did not look for God. The rulers broke his law. The prophets spoke by Baal. God pointed out that no nation changes its gods, even false ones, yet his people had traded their glory for what does not profit.

Then God gave a famous picture. His people had committed two evils. They had forsaken him, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can't hold water. God had planted them like a noble vine, but they had turned wild. Still, when trouble came, they would cry to him to save them.

Show What You Know

  1. How did God describe his people's early love?

  2. What did God point out about other nations?

  3. What were the two evils?

  4. What would the people do when trouble came?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

vinelandGod
  1. told Jeremiah to proclaim a message in the ears of Jerusalem.
  2. God had brought them into a plentiful , yet they defiled it.
  3. God had planted them like a noble , but they had turned wild.

Think About It

  1. What are some broken cisterns people trust today instead of God?

  2. How is God like a spring of living water in your life?

Memory Verse

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What does it mean to trade your glory?
  • Why is it easy to trade God for something that cannot help us?

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Jeremiah 2 · Grade 5

Two Evils

Name Date

Read and Think

Jeremiah 2 opens with tender memory. God recalled the kindness of Israel's youth, their love as a bride, how they followed him in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. The rest of the chapter reads like a case in a courtroom, as God lays out his charge against his people.

God asked what wrong their fathers had found in him, that they went far away and walked after worthless vanity. He had brought them into a plentiful land, but they defiled it. Priests, rulers and prophets all failed. God invited them to search from the islands of Kittim to Kedar: no nation had ever traded its gods, even though those gods were not gods at all. Yet God's people had changed their glory for that which doesn't profit.

At the center stands the image of two evils. They forsook God, the spring of living waters, and dug cisterns that cannot hold water. Running spring water was precious in a dry land; a cracked cistern held only stale dregs, if anything. The chapter goes on to describe the people's restless turning to Egypt and Assyria, their idols of wood and stone, and their claim to be innocent. God said that a nation that rejects him will be ashamed of the very powers it trusted.

Show What You Know

  1. How does the chapter open?

  2. What did God say no other nation had done?

  3. Why is a spring better than a cistern in a dry land?

  4. What did the people claim even after turning away?

Crossword

42351

Across

  1. And cut out ____ for themselves.
  2. Yet I had planted you a noble ____.
  3. The spring of ____ waters.

Down

  1. The ____ of living waters.
  2. To drink the ____ of the Shihor.

Think About It

  1. Why do you think people leave something good for something that cannot satisfy?

  2. What helps you keep going back to God as your spring of living water?

Memory Verse

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my living water. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why did they claim to be innocent?
  • How do people dig broken cisterns today?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org. © 2026 The Daily Rooted. Free to print and copy for church and home use; not for resale. Original line art.