Is the imprecatory section of Psalm 139 effectively a parenthesis?

Yesterday, I read this really helpful post by Rhys Laverty on praying the imprecatory Psalms. His main purpose is to suggest C.S. Lewis and Tim

What Jesus said and what Jesus did can’t be in opposition

Lee Gatiss has written an interesting post on the Church Society website. You can read it here. His essential argument appears to be, just because

Can we pray the imprecatory psalms?

Not that I think sweeping statements are usually helpful, I do think Evangelical approaches to the Old Testament are often quite poor. I don’t mean