Revelation 10:9-11

J.B. Phillips New Testament

⁹ So I went off towards the angel, asking him to give me the little book. “Take it,” he said to me, “and eat it up. It will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth.”

¹⁰ Then I took the little book from the angel’s hand and swallowed it. It was as sweet as honey to the taste but when I had eaten it up it was bitter to my stomach.

John is instructed to prophesy

¹¹ Then they said to me, “It is again your duty to prophesy about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”