One of the significant theological contributions of the Literary (or Latter) Prophets in the Old Testament is the claim that—in the process of judgment and restoration—YHWH will preserve a faithful people for himself. The prophets use several different metaphors to describe this process and the “remnant” that will exist when the unfaithful are destroyed. However, this paper argues that there are additional metaphors which implicitly address this “remnant” as well. The paper begins by examining the idea of frames in current theories of conceptual metaphors. One effect of conceptual frames is that they encourage readers to supply additional, implicit information to the metaphor. In certain metaphors of judgment, the prophets exploit this conceptual space by using metaphors of separation, sifting, and refinement to speak of a preserved people even though that claim is not explicit. The paper provides a comprehensive list of these metaphors, and analyzes some of the most important ones in their respective literary contexts. Thus, the paper makes two contributions. First, it demonstrates that metaphors exploit conceptual “empty” space to make some of their most important contributions. This may have implications for other kinds of metaphors as well. Second, it identifies metaphors and claims concerning the remnant that may not have been observed by scholars in the past.