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Lamentations 2 · Preschool

Pour Out Your Heart

Name Date

Color the people praying with their hands lifted up. We can pray to God anytime!

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

Bible Verse

“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.”

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

Take It Home

Read the verse aloud. Then explain that God's people were very sad. They were told to cry out to God in the night and pour out their hearts to him. Explain that we can tell God anything, even when we are sad or scared. Pray together.

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Lamentations 2 · Kindergarten

Cry Out to God

Name Date

Trace the Words

Trace each word with your pencil.

CRY
PRAY
NIGHT
LORD
Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each word to its picture.

CRY
PRAY
DAY
HEART

Mini Maze

Help find the way through the maze.

Draw It

Draw hands lifted up in prayer.

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening when I pray. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why were the people crying?
  • What can we do when we are sad?

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.

Lamentations 2 · Grade 1

Tears in the Night

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Trace the Words

Trace the words and the verse.

TEARS
RIVER
HEART
PRAY
Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Match the Pictures

Draw a line from each sentence to its picture.

Tears ran like a river.
Pour out your heart.
Lift up your hands.
God's house was gone.
Cry out to the Lord.

Pray to God

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

They keep silence

Pour out your heart like water

Arise, cry out in the night

Their heart cried to the Lord

Draw hands lifted up in prayer.

Memory Verse

“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.”

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening when I pray. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • When can we pray?
  • What did the people lift up?
  • What would you like to say to God about this chapter?

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.

Lamentations 2 · Grade 2

Cry Out to the Lord

Name Date

Read the Story

God's people were very sad. Their city was broken. They cried and cried.

The poem told them to cry out to the Lord. It told them to pour out their hearts and lift up their hands to him. God hears his people when they pray.

Memory Verse

“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.”

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Show What You Know

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

  1. How did God's people feel?

    Very sadTheir handsIt was broken

  2. What happened to their city?

    Very sadIt was brokenGod

  3. Who were they told to cry out to?

    The LordTheir handsVery sad

  4. What were they told to lift up?

    The LordGodTheir hands

  5. Who hears us when we pray?

    GodTheir handsIt was broken

Word Search

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

WTDUMJGOKHEDTHEARTUAHDADURFYRSAULKIGNSLPLORVNIMGFSRAEVGWIDTDORLHKPHILWSFTILMNNOSD
  • HEART
  • TEARS
  • RIVER
  • NIGHT
  • LORD

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening when I pray. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What can you do when something sad happens?
  • What did false prophets do?

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.

Lamentations 2 · Grade 3

Pour Out Your Heart Like Water

Name Date

Read the Story

The second sad poem tells how Jerusalem was thrown down. The walls and gates fell. Even God's temple was destroyed. God had warned his people long before that this would happen if they did not turn back.

The poem says the prophets had seen false visions. They did not show the people their sin. So the people did not turn back to God.

The poet cried until his eyes were tired. Then he told the city to cry out to God. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him. Even in the worst times, God's people can pray.

Memory Verse

“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.”

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Answer the Questions

  1. What fell in Jerusalem?

  2. What else was destroyed?

  3. What did the false prophets not show the people?

  4. What should the city pour out like water?

  5. What can God's people do even in the worst times?

Pray to God

Write what happened in each box.

1
2
3
4

Word Search

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

VTYHHADTJHTEARSOUUEWJLOBFRVAUDRWJVSLRETSOLUWOTCVADWNGRUFNIGHTIDVBPOUMBAPLRIVERFFO
  • HEART
  • TEARS
  • RIVER
  • NIGHT
  • LORD

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening when I pray. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why didn't the people turn back?
  • How can a heart be poured out?

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.

Lamentations 2 · Grade 4

The Lord Has Done What He Planned

Name Date

Read and Think

Lamentations 2 is a second acrostic poem. It looks at Jerusalem's fall as the work of God himself. The Lord had become like an enemy, throwing down walls, palaces, and even his own altar and sanctuary. The poem shows that the disaster was not an accident.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. God had warned through Moses and the prophets that rebellion would lead to judgment. The poem also blames the false prophets. They had not uncovered the people's sin, so the people never turned back.

Still, the poem does not tell people to run away from God. It tells them to run to him. Their heart cried to the Lord. They are urged to rise in the night and pour out their hearts like water before the face of the Lord. The same God who judged sin is the only one who can heal.

Show What You Know

  1. Whose work does the poem say Jerusalem's fall was?

  2. Through whom had God warned his people?

  3. What had the false prophets failed to uncover?

  4. Where does the poem tell people to run?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

GodheartnightLord
  1. The had become like an enemy, throwing down walls, palaces, and even his own altar and sanctuary.
  2. had warned through Moses and the prophets that rebellion would lead to judgment.
  3. Their cried to the Lord.
  4. They are urged to rise in the and pour out their hearts like water before the face of the Lord.

Think About It

  1. Why is it surprising that the poem tells the people to run to the God who judged them?

  2. Why is it harmful when people hear only what they want to hear?

Memory Verse

“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.”

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening when I pray. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Why did God's judgment come?
  • Why do we need true teachers?

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.

Lamentations 2 · Grade 5

Like Water Before the Lord

Name Date

Read and Think

The second poem is the most intense in the book. Its first section describes the Lord acting as an enemy against his own city: he cut off Israel's strength, swallowed up its palaces, and cast off his altar. The temple, once the place of God's presence, became like a garden hut torn down. Feasts and Sabbaths were forgotten, and the king and priests were rejected.

The poet then speaks of his own grief. My eyes fail with tears. He sees the suffering of children and asks what he can compare Zion's ruin to; it is as vast as the sea. He names a key cause: Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity.

Verse 17 states the theology plainly: Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. This echoes the warnings of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Yet the response called for is prayer, not despair. The wall of Zion is told to let tears run down like a river, to pour out the heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lament takes God's judgment seriously and still turns toward him.

Show What You Know

  1. What did the temple become like?

  2. What does the poet compare the size of Zion's ruin to?

  3. Which books contain the warnings verse 17 echoes?

  4. What response does the poem call for?

Crossword

45213

Across

  1. The ____ has cast off his altar.
  2. Their ____ cried to the Lord.

Down

  1. Let tears run down like a ____ day and night.
  2. Let tears run down like a river day and ____.
  3. My eyes fail with ____.

Think About It

  1. How can someone accept that God is just and still pour out grief to him?

  2. What does it look like today to pour out your heart like water before the Lord?

Memory Verse

“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.”

Lamentations 2:18 (WEB)

Copy It

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for listening when I pray. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • When could you pray at night?
  • What would you pour out to God?
  • 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.