Why exclude "hate" verse in Psalm 139

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Why did the lectionary exclude verses 19-22 of today’s reading of Psalm 139? Sometimes virtuous people do pray that God “would destroy the wicked.” The psalm writer then said in vs 24 “see if my way is crooked”.
An old Boston priest told me that in past times, the Church suggested that these “hate” passages be read as a means of releasing hate in one’s self, a kind of therapy of sorts.

I just think that the lectionary writers thought these four verse too thorny of an issue.
 
We hate the sin, not the sinner. The Church is a hospital for sinners, and Jesus never instructed that one hate a person.
Unless I misunderstand what the thorny issue is exactly?
 
Maybe it’s just esthetics. After reading the psalm, it seems to me (purely in a poetic sense) that those verses just don’t fit in with the theme of the psalm. The psalm readings at mass are often – in fact, almost always – edited to express certain themes, even to the point of putting together verses from different psalms.
 
Well, yesterday I was contemplating why the lectionary exclusion of these passages of the bible. I was thinking that in the Hebrew law back in the days of the Decalogue, it says pretty much don’t hate “countrymen”, love them. It didn’t say 'everyone, ’ which , of course. Jesus came to change all that. In other words, back in the days of the embryo church, it WAS okay to hate certain people. God never said this directly, but the embryo church jumped to that conclusion that God said this.
The broadening of the love law, then, when Jesus came to correct things and clarify them, in my humble opinion, was God’s way of contrast teaching. If we were allowed to know what hate was of certain ‘classes’ of people, then we could better learn what love was of everyone. Then, I jumped to the exclusion in the lectionary—isn’t this exclusion of these hate verses a deliberate attempt to ignore God’s way of contrast teaching?

Granted, just sitting in the pews and hearing the hate verses may totally confuse without all the thinking that has to go on surrounding these verses.

So what’s the answer? The church ignores the problem.
 
The Church has truncated other Psalms as well. When you pray the Liturgy of the Hours (at least as presented in Christian Prayer) you don’t get all of Psalm 137 either. They skip the part about “Fair Babylon, you destroyer, happy those who pay you back the evil you have done us! Happy those who seize your children and smash them against a rock.”

I suppose they made the decision that while we may express such sentiments privately, they shouldn’t be a part of our public worship.
 
That’s just it! We sometimes pray as in Psalm 139 .
We pray (vs.19) “If only you would destroy the wicked, O God…” Then we turn around and pray (vs. 23), “Probe me, God, know my heart; try me, know my concerns. See if my way is crooked…”

We’re a fickle bunch, I guess. God must just shake his head. “Am I EVER going to get through to these people? What more can I do for them?”
 
I guess the thorny issue is forgiveness. For too long, I’ve dumped my hate in God’s lap and asked him to do something for me to make it all better and then I’ve asked HIM to forgive ME? I have to name this hate, face it head on, and with God’s help, forgive. And if I don’t, God has already told me that, even though I am somewhat virtuous and lacking in desperation, my lack of forgiveness will exclude ME (not my enemy) from the gates of heaven.
Now, there’s an incentive for ya. The simple thought of total exclusion of my own soul from everlasting life with God, I think that I should start making the attempt at forgiveness. Hey, coming to this point has been a long one, yet God is patient and understands completely the anguish of being victimized and reacting in hate to the aggressor. No, it isn’t okay to hate, but part of the process and contrast leading to love. For how would I know unequivocally that I reached the top of the mountain without hate first being at the bottom?.
 
That is a bit of mystery that they would exclude words like that. I always read my Bible after church to compare with what read at church
 
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