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Lamentations 1 · Preschool

Tell God When You Are Sad

Name Date

Color the city and the people praying. We can tell God when we are sad!

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

Bible Verse

“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

Take It Home

Read the verse aloud. Then explain that Lamentations is a book of sad songs. God's people were very sad after their city was taken. They told God how they felt. Talk about a time you felt sad, and pray together, telling God how you feel.

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Lamentations 1 · Kindergarten

Sad Songs

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Trace the Words

Trace each word with your pencil.

SAD
CITY
TEARS
GOD
“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each word to its picture.

CITY
TEARS
SAD
GOD

Mini Maze

Help find the way through the maze.

Draw It

Draw yourself telling God how you feel.

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why was the city sad?
  • Who can we tell when we are sad?

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Lamentations 1 · Grade 1

A City Alone

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Trace the Words

Trace the words and the verse.

CITY
ALONE
SORROW
RIGHTEOUS
“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each sentence to its picture.

The city was once full.
The people went far away.
The city cried at night.
No one came to help.
God is righteous.

Tell God

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

My heart is troubled

Yahweh is righteous

Look, Yahweh

She finds no rest

Draw yourself telling God how you feel.

Memory Verse

“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Where did the people go?
  • When did the city cry?
  • What would you like to say to God about this chapter?

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Lamentations 1 · Grade 2

A Sad Song

Name Date

Read the Story

Jerusalem was once full of people. Now the city was empty. The people had been taken far away.

The city cried at night. No one came to comfort her. But the people still talked to God. They said that God is righteous.

Memory Verse

“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Show What You Know

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

  1. What was Jerusalem once full of?

    NoFar awayPeople

  2. Where did the people go?

    PeopleAt nightFar away

  3. When did the city cry?

    PeopleNoAt night

  4. Did anyone come to comfort her?

    Far awayPeopleNo

  5. What did the people say about God?

    God is righteousNoPeople

Word Search

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

GCPBBSUCURCOAEBKBPSPIMJCJHBRDDTFJOLNLYORYOHMKNZIONWRSEJUDAHDRTJYGPHAMONGJRROADSBD
  • COMFORT
  • BECOME
  • AMONG
  • JUDAH
  • ROADS
  • CITY
  • ZION

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why was no one there to help?
  • What did the city tell God?

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Lamentations 1 · Grade 3

The City Like a Widow

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Read the Story

Lamentations is a book of sad poems. The first poem is about Jerusalem. The city that was once full of people now sat alone, like a widow. Her friends had left her.

Judah had gone into captivity. The roads to Zion were sad because no one came to the feasts. The poem says plainly that Jerusalem had sinned against God.

Again and again the poem says there is no one to comfort her. But Jerusalem still turned to God. The city said that Yahweh is righteous and asked all the peoples to see her sorrow. Even when people are very sad, they can bring their tears to God.

Memory Verse

“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Answer the Questions

  1. What is Lamentations?

  2. What is the city compared to?

  3. Why were the roads to Zion sad?

  4. What did the poem say plainly?

  5. What did the city say about Yahweh?

Tell God

Write what happened in each box.

1
2
3
4

Word Search

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

CCWLCDFKHWFNROADSCBECOMEUTIJMJNFHUNTMAGGOFJUYIIMNRFUDTGRROTADUEPVYHNWANWZIONBGHDI
  • COMFORT
  • BECOME
  • AMONG
  • JUDAH
  • ROADS
  • CITY
  • ZION

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why is it okay to tell God when we are sad?
  • What did Jerusalem admit?

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Lamentations 1 · Grade 4

Is It Nothing to You?

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Read and Think

Lamentations is a collection of five poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem. The first four are acrostics, with verses that begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order. Using every letter from first to last may show grief expressed completely, from A to Z.

Chapter 1 pictures Jerusalem as a widow weeping in the night. She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Her people were in exile, her festivals had stopped, and her enemies were proud. Five times the poem says there was no one to comfort her.

In the second half, the city herself speaks. She calls to people passing by to look and see whether any sorrow is like hers. She admits her sin. Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Lamentations teaches that honest grief and honest confession can both be brought to God.

Show What You Know

  1. What city do the poems mourn?

  2. What is an acrostic poem?

  3. What does the poem say five times?

  4. What does the city admit in the second half?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

cityGodcomfort
  1. Five times the poem says there was no one to her.
  2. In the second half, the herself speaks.
  3. Lamentations teaches that honest grief and honest confession can both be brought to .

Think About It

  1. Why do you think God included sad poems in the Bible?

  2. How can confessing sin and sharing sorrow both bring us closer to God?

Memory Verse

“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why is it good to be honest with God?
  • How can you comfort someone who is sad?

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Lamentations 1 · Grade 5

No One to Comfort

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Read and Think

Lamentations contains five poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem. The book itself does not name its author. Chapters 1 to 4 are acrostics built on the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and chapter 5 has twenty-two verses but is not an acrostic. The careful structure gives shape to overwhelming grief.

The first poem has two voices. In verses 1 to 11, a narrator describes Jerusalem as a widow, once a princess among the provinces and now a forced laborer. How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! The refrain is that she has no one to comfort her. Her lovers, the nations she trusted, had become her enemies.

In verses 12 to 22, Zion speaks for herself. Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? She confesses that the disaster came because of her own rebellion, and she calls on God to see. The poem does not rush to a happy ending. It models lament: bringing pain, guilt, and questions honestly before the God who is righteous.

Show What You Know

  1. Does the book name its author?

  2. How many verses does chapter 5 have?

  3. Who were Jerusalem's lovers?

  4. What does the poem model?

Crossword

51234

Across

  1. There is no one to ____ her.

Down

  1. Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have ____ despised.
  2. All majesty has departed from the daughter of ____.
  3. How the ____ sits solitary, that was full of people.
  4. Jerusalem is ____ them as an unclean thing.

Think About It

  1. How is lament different from complaining?

  2. Why might the poem refuse to rush to a happy ending?

Memory Verse

“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • When have you felt alone?
  • How can sad prayers be prayers of faith?
  • 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.