YMMV / Book of Psalms

• Adaptation Overdosed: If we even attempted to list all the songwriters and composers and poets who've used or adapted the text of various Psalms, we'd be here all month. And that's not even getting into the different ways of singing the Psalms in several major religious traditions; they notably get their own unique takes from worshipers in Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Anglican, Islamic, and even Rastafarian faiths.
• Less Disturbing in Context: Interpreters of the Imprecatory Psalms point out that such verses are usually surrounded by other passages that stress the need for repentance, mercy, and leaving vengeance up to God. And most of them end on a hopeful note once the psalmist gets his negative feelings out.
• Memetic Mutation: "Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death" (23:4).
• Values Dissonance: The Imprecatory Psalms can read rather jarringly to present-day sensibilities, especially given that most religious traditions put a premium on love and forgiving one's enemies. Special note goes to Psalm 137 ("Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones").
• Woolseyism: Metrical psalters are translations of the Psalms in English translated into poetic verse. There are used in some Protestant churches to be sung as hymns.