Here are all the known verses past Presidents have chosen, per the records of by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, as worded in the King James Bible George Washington in ...

It makes sense that people question how relevant it is in the modern world because it was written so long ago. Christians believe in its simplest form the Bible ... Its verses have been invoked ...

More challenges arise when the poem in question is a 40-verse (chalisa) hymn in Avadhi, the language of Ayodhya, to the godly Hanuman, a poem that is loved and recited daily by millions of Hindus.