Jeremiah 31:27-30

Yahweh will replenish the scanty populations of both kingdoms, and will establish them (for the terms, cf. Jeremiah 1:10). In the future, individual responsibility for sin will replace the old doctrine of corporate personality, by which children suffered for the sins of their fathers (e.g. Achan's, Joshua 7:24), and Israel seemed to be suffering for the sins of past generations (Lamentations 5:7; c f. Deuteronomy 24:16, and the notes on Ezekiel 18:2 ff.).