...for his children for the iniquity of their fathers" (Isaiah 14:21, Kjv).The book of Jeremiah says, "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge" (Jeremiah 31:29, KJV). Perhaps one of the more illustrative scriptures is found in Lamentations...

...third and fourth generation of them that hate me"; the latter, "In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity." As they stand the two statements conflict, one...

...will watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth...