Victory Songs and City Lament. Five passages in Isa 24–27 were identified as victory songs by Paul Lohmann (Lewis, Isaiah 24–27, 8). Gunnar Hylmö saw chapters 25 and 26 as a prophetic liturgy which included hymns, oracles, and a lamentation (Lewis, Isaiah 24–27, 9).

Isaiah 24–27 has some elements of the genre city lament, such as various classes of people in Isa 24:2—people, priest, servant, master, maid, mistress, buyer, seller, lender, borrower, taker of usury, and giver of usury. This is used to show that a disaster affects everyone. By comparison, Lamentations 5:11–14 mentions women, virgins, princes, elders, old men, and young men and Eccl 12:3 mentions keepers of the house, strong men, grinders, and those looking through the windows (Bennett, Ecclesiastes/Lamentations, 176). Another element common to city lament is the cessation of music (Isa 24:8; Eccl 12:4; Lam 5:14).