³ “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat^[a] and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate it,^(A) and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.^(B)

⁹ So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”^(A)