DUNG
In ancient people, as well as in Israel, animal manure was used as fuel and also as fertilizer once dry. It was dried in the sun or on the roofs. It was used to light the ovens and the stove (Ez. 4:12-16).
Isaiah mentions it as fertilizer (Is. 25:10). In Jerusalem there was a “Dunghill Gate” or “Dunghill Gate” (Neh. 2:13; 3:13, 14; 12:31), so called, surely, because the filth of the city was thrown next to it.
In a figurative sense, lying on the dungheap is a sign of extreme misery (Lam. 4:5) and lifting one up from the dungheap means removing him from his prostrate condition (1 Sam. 2:8; Ps. 113:7).