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Lamentations 2 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Tears Like a River

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolPour Out Your Heart

Handpeopleheartmoon and starshouse

Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenCry Out to God

CRY → picture 4PRAY → picture 3DAY → picture 2HEART → picture 1

Grade 1Tears in the Night

Tears ran like a river. → picture 3Pour out your heart. → picture 5Lift up your hands. → picture 2God's house was gone. → picture 4Cry out to the Lord. → picture 1

Order:

1. They keep silence2. Their heart cried to the Lord3. Arise, cry out in the night4. Pour out your heart like water

Grade 2Cry Out to the Lord

  1. How did God's people feel? Very sad (circle)
  2. What happened to their city? It was broken (circle)
  3. Who were they told to cry out to? The Lord (circle)
  4. What were they told to lift up? Their hands (circle)
  5. Who hears us when we pray? God (circle)
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Grade 3Pour Out Your Heart Like Water

  1. What fell in Jerusalem? The walls and gates
  2. What else was destroyed? God's temple
  3. What did the false prophets not show the people? Their sin
  4. What should the city pour out like water? Her heart
  5. What can God's people do even in the worst times? Pray
1: They keep silence2: Their heart cried to the Lord3: Arise, cry out in the night4: Pour out your heart like water
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Grade 4The Lord Has Done What He Planned

  1. Whose work does the poem say Jerusalem's fall was? God's work
  2. Through whom had God warned his people? Moses and the prophets
  3. What had the false prophets failed to uncover? The people's sin
  4. Where does the poem tell people to run? To God

Word bank: 1. Lord; 2. God; 3. heart; 4. night

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Like Water Before the Lord

  1. What did the temple become like? A garden hut torn down
  2. What does the poet compare the size of Zion's ruin to? The sea
  3. Which books contain the warnings verse 17 echoes? Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28
  4. What response does the poem call for? Prayer, not despair
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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