PowerShell Bible Scripture Function

I've been meaning to put this together for a while and just now got around to doing it. Here's a short function that calls the Bible.org Api for Bible scriptures. One idea I had was to plug this into my profile so that I could replace the Microsoft log with a scripture.

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function Get-BibleVerse {     <#         .SYNOPSIS             Calls the bible.org api and returns the specified scriptures.           .DESCRIPTION             Calls the bible.org api to return the specified book-chapter-verse,             random verse, or verse of the day.           .PARAMETER Random             Indicates the scripture returned should be random.           .PARAMETER VerseOfTheDay             Indicates the scripture returned should be the verse of the day.           .PARAMETER Book             Indicates the book to return, such as Matthew, Marke, Luke, or John.           .EXAMPLE             PS C:\> Get-BibleVerse -Random           .EXAMPLE             PS C:\> Get-BibleVerse -VerseOfTheDay -Type Json -Formatting Plain           .EXAMPLE             PS C:\> Get-BibleVerse -Book Ephesians -Chapter 5 -Verse 25 -Type Json           .NOTES             Michael West             07.23.2013             http://michaellwest.blogspot.com           .LINK             http://labs.bible.org/api_web_service     #>     [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName="Default")]     param(         [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Random")]         [switch]$Random,           [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Votd")]         [switch]$VerseOfTheDay,           [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Default")]         [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]         [string]$Book="Genesis",                   [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Default")]         [ValidateScript({$_ -gt 0})]         [int]$Chapter = 1,           [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Default")]         [ValidateScript({$_ -gt -1})]         [int]$Verse=1,           [ValidateSet("Json","Xml","Text")]         [string]$Type="Text",           [ValidateSet("Full","Para","Plain")]         [string]$Formatting="Plain"     )       $url = "http://labs.bible.org/api/?passage="       if($PSCmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq "Votd") {         $url += "votd"     } elseif ($PSCmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq "Random") {         $url += "random"     } else {         $url += "$($Book)+$($Chapter)"         if($Verse) {             $url += ":$($Verse)"         }     }     $url += "&type=$($Type)&formatting=$($Formatting)"     $url = $url.ToLower()       $result = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url     if($result) {         $result.Content     } }

Update 07.24.2013 Add this to your profile to get the verse of the day.

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1 2	$scripture = (Get-BibleVerse -VerseOfTheDay -Type Json | ConvertFrom-Json)[0] "$($scripture.bookname) $($scripture.chapter):$($scripture.verse) $($scripture.text)"