Sirach 3:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.

¹⁷ And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.

¹⁸ Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth his mother.