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Jeremiah 4 · Preschool

A Clean Heart

Name Date

Color the heart and the plowed field. God wants our hearts to be soft and clean!

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

Bible Verse

“Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?”

Jeremiah 4:14 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

Take It Home

Read the verse aloud. Then explain that God wanted his people to have clean hearts. When we do wrong, we can ask God to help us make it right. Let's say sorry and thank you to God together.

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Jeremiah 4 · Kindergarten

A Soft Heart

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace each word with your pencil.

HEART
WASH
SEED
GOD
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 4:14 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each word to its picture.

HEART
WASH
SEED
PLANT

Mini Maze

Help find the way through the maze.

Draw It

Draw a field ready for seeds.

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for softening my heart. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What does a soft heart mean?
  • How can we wash our hearts?

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Jeremiah 4 · Grade 1

Wash Your Heart

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace the words and the verse.

HEART
WASH
GROUND
TRUMPET
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 4:14 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each sentence to its picture.

God told Jerusalem to wash its heart.
Do not sow among thorns.
Jeremiah heard a trumpet.
Trouble came like clouds.
God would not make a full end.

Soft Hearts

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

They don’t know me

The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him

Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns

Blow the trumpet in the land

Draw a field ready for seeds.

Memory Verse

“Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?”

Jeremiah 4:14 (WEB)

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for softening my heart. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What is fallow ground?
  • Why do thorns stop seeds?
  • What would you like to say to God about this chapter?

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Jeremiah 4 · Grade 2

Soft Ground

Name Date

Read the Story

God told his people to come back to him. He used a farm picture. Hard ground must be broken up before seeds can grow.

God wanted their hearts to be soft like good ground. He told them to wash their hearts. Jeremiah was very sad for his people. But God would not give up on them all the way.

Memory Verse

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

Jeremiah 4:3 (WEB)

Show What You Know

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

  1. What did God tell his people to do?

    Very sad for his peopleCome back to himSoft like good ground

  2. What must happen to hard ground?

  3. How did God want their hearts?

    Very sad for his peopleIt must be broken upSoft like good ground

  4. How did Jeremiah feel?

  5. Would God give up all the way?

Word Search

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

JYOMCSGNBMETWSLWUDFBRRKKAJASMTUUWSILOHBHSMHPEWECWOAPUTBAEITRLEHGROUNDNETPTAMPLFSM
  • JERUSALEM
  • TRUMPET
  • THORNS
  • GROUND
  • HEART
  • WASH
  • SOW

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for softening my heart. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What was coming from the north?
  • Why do you think Jeremiah was so sad?

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Jeremiah 4 · Grade 3

Wash Your Heart

Name Date

Read the Story

God told his people that if they would return to him, the nations would be blessed. Then God used a farm picture. He told them to break up their fallow ground. Fallow ground is hard land that has not been plowed.

God told them not to sow among thorns. Seeds cannot grow well in hard ground with thorns. God wanted their hearts to be ready for him. He told Jerusalem to wash its heart so they could be saved.

Jeremiah warned that trouble was coming from the north. It would come like clouds and a whirlwind. Jeremiah felt pain in his heart for his people. They did not know how to do good. Still God said he would not make a full end.

Memory Verse

“Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?”

Jeremiah 4:14 (WEB)

Answer the Questions

  1. What would happen if the people returned?

  2. What is fallow ground?

  3. Why not sow among thorns?

  4. What did God tell Jerusalem to wash?

  5. What did God say he would not do?

Soft Hearts

Write what happened in each box.

1
2
3
4

Word Search

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

TYTRUMPETFBHRMHBADGROUNDWJBJERUSALEMPVNYDUVDWMJSVFUEGMORTGSOWDFVVWWASHPKWOIYHEART
  • JERUSALEM
  • TRUMPET
  • THORNS
  • GROUND
  • HEART
  • WASH
  • SOW

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for softening my heart. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why did God want clean hearts?
  • Why is it good news that God would not make a full end?

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Jeremiah 4 · Grade 4

Hearts Like Hard Ground

Name Date

Read and Think

God promised that if Israel would return and put away their idols, they would swear by him in truth, justice and righteousness, and the nations would bless themselves in him. Then he spoke to Judah and Jerusalem with a farming picture. They must break up their fallow ground and not sow among thorns. Their hearts had become hard and crowded with weeds.

God called them to wash their hearts from wickedness so they could be saved. If they would not, trouble would come from the north like a lion leaving its thicket. The enemy would come up like clouds, with chariots like a whirlwind and horses swifter than eagles.

Jeremiah felt this deeply. He cried out that his heart was pained and trembling. God said his people were foolish children who knew how to do evil but not how to do good. Jeremiah saw a vision of the land empty and dark, the mountains trembling and the birds gone. Yet God said, I will not make a full end.

Show What You Know

  1. What would happen if Israel returned in truth?

  2. What does breaking up fallow ground picture?

  3. How did the enemy come in Jeremiah's warning?

  4. What hope did God still give?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

heartwashJerusalemthornsgood
  1. Then he spoke to Judah and with a farming picture.
  2. They must break up their fallow ground and not sow among .
  3. God called them to their hearts from wickedness so they could be saved.
  4. He cried out that his was pained and trembling.
  5. God said his people were foolish children who knew how to do evil but not how to do .

Think About It

  1. What kinds of things can make a heart hard like fallow ground?

  2. Jeremiah felt pain for his people. Who do you care about enough to pray for?

Memory Verse

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

Jeremiah 4:3 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for softening my heart. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What does circumcise the heart mean?
  • How did Jeremiah's vision look like creation undone?

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Jeremiah 4 · Grade 5

I Will Not Make a Full End

Name Date

Read and Think

The chapter opens with a conditional promise. If Israel would return and put away their abominations, they would swear As Yahweh lives in truth, justice and righteousness, and the nations would bless themselves in him. Faithfulness in God's people was meant to become a blessing to the world.

Then comes an agricultural command. Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns. Unplowed ground is hard and choked with weeds, and seed sown there is wasted. God also spoke of circumcising the heart, an image of inner devotion rather than an outward sign only, and called Jerusalem to wash its heart from wickedness. The alternative was judgment from the north, pictured as a lion from its thicket, storm clouds, and chariots like a whirlwind.

Jeremiah's response is one of the most personal passages in the prophets. In verse 19 he cries, My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! He then described a vision in the language of Genesis 1 reversed. The earth was waste and void, the heavens had no light, the mountains trembled, no man remained, and the birds had fled. Yet in the middle of this vision God declares, The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Show What You Know

  1. How was Israel's faithfulness meant to affect the nations?

  2. What does circumcising the heart picture?

  3. How does Jeremiah's vision echo Genesis 1?

  4. What limit did God place on the judgment?

Crossword

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Across

  1. I am pained at my very ____.
  2. You men of Judah and inhabitants of ____.

Down

  1. And don’t sow among ____.
  2. Blow the ____ in the land.
  3. And don’t ____ among thorns.

Think About It

  1. God asked for a changed heart, not just outward religion. How can someone tell the difference in their own life?

  2. Jeremiah grieved over judgment rather than celebrating it. What does that teach about how to care for people who have turned away from God?

Memory Verse

For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 4:27 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for softening my heart. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why did Jeremiah grieve instead of cheer?
  • What does God want more than outward religion?
  • 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.