²¹ But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

⁹ So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’^[a]”^{(A) 10} I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth,^(B) but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.

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