Nisibis 64

The voice of the dead: The mourners weep over your dead, that by death they might be freed from afflictions and sins. They have hastened the burial. Praise that endures for all has become a cause for all to lament. Even death tastes because of all that it sees. It has revealed to you that even the deceiver, when he does good, laughs over your tears. He mocks your mourners. With derision he whispers and winks like a mocker, that he may come and laugh at the sinners who are now being tormented. Leave aside the thought of that mountain that has buried them, and now the fools are drunk with the weeping of their departed ones. Instead of your weeping, which is like that of those without provisions, their dead have been brought out in vain. Now they are tormented, the souls of the wicked are afflicted until the day of judgment. And these weep over the graves like madmen. They are not ashamed that their sins will be exposed tomorrow. With shame on their faces, they come to their dead. And as they are ashamed, equally their errors are confused. The mourners are consumed in vain, without profit. Let them be drunk and tormented on that day when the vintner pressed his wine for the one who was to drink. The lamenter goes to cover your eyes like infants, that they may be tormented and also be drunk until they cease. I have revealed to you even the hidden mystery of my grief. Go forth, then, and be prepared with repentance. I, the Ephremian, also go to fulfill my desires, that with open face I may present my thought to my Lord. The lamenter knows that it is the spirit that has ceased and taken away my words.

You have wept and lamented much, and you have remembered Jeremiah, who likened the wantonness of the unchangeable covenant to freedom. This too, indeed, belongs to that freedom which bound itself to the will as to a lamentation. For the will rules over the free, and it is fitting that the captive be likened by his deeds.