20 Songs in the Old Testament

Besides the songs in the Psalms, the Song of Solomon and the 5 Lamentations there are

1. The song of Moses and Miriam or of the Sea (Exodus 15:1–18, 21)
2. The song of wells in the wilderness (Nu 21:17–18)
3. The song of Moses and Joshua (Deuteronomy 31:19–22, 30, 32:1–43)
4. The song of Deborah and Baruk (Jdg 5)
5. The song of Hannah (1 Sam 2:1-10)
6. The song of David’s victory (1 Sam 18:7)
7. The song of the bow (2 Samuel 1:17–27)
8. The lament of David for Abner (2 Samuel 3:33–34)
9. The song of Asaph for the temple’s completion (2 Chronicles 5:13)
10. Isaiah’s vineyard song (Isaiah 5:1–2)
11. The song of the harlot (Isaiah 23:15) 
12. The song of Judah’s protection (Isaiah 26:1–6)
13. The song of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:9-20)
14. The lament for the princes of Israel (Ezek 19:1–14)
15. The international lament for Tyre (Ezek 26:17–18)
16. Ezekiel’s lament over Tyre (Ezek 27) includes the sailors' lament for Tyre (Ezek 27:32–36)
17. Ezekiel’s second lament over the king of Tyre (Ezek 28:12–19)
18. Ezekiel’s lament for Pharaoh (Ezek 32:2) 
19. The dirge of Amos for the house of Israel (Amos 5:2)
20. The song of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3)

[The song of David’s deliverance is in 2 Samuel 22 as well as Ps 18 and Asaph’s psalm of praise is in 1 Ch 16:7 as well as Ps 105]

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