'Left' in the Bible

If the Lord of Hostshad not left us a few survivors,we would be like Sodom,we would resemble Gomorrah.

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are destined to live—

Woe to those who add house to houseand join field to fielduntil there is no more roomand you alone are left in the land.

They carve meat on the right,but they are still hungry;they have eaten on the left,but they are still not satisfied.Each one eats the flesh of his own arm.

And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”

They will all be left for the birds of prey on the hillsand for the wild animals of the land.The birds will spend the summer on them,and all the animals, the winter on them.

An oracle against Dumah:One calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night?Watchman, what is left of the night?”

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,and all her princes will come to nothing.

When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he returned and found him fighting against Libnah.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

‘The time will certainly come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

Then you will say within yourself,‘Who fathered these for me?I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,exiled and wandering—but who brought them up?See, I was left by myself—but these, where did they come from?’”

For you will spread out to the right and to the left,and your descendants will dispossess nationsand inhabit the desolate cities.