Habakkuk could very much be one of those contemporaries with Lehi, and everything that we're seeing here is part of that context. The reference to Neo-Babylonians is the fact that we have people inhabiting Babylon well before the rise of the Babylonian Empire. What Habakkuk is saying in this first prayer is, God, why aren't you listening to me? And I can see it on John's face that he already knows exactly the parallel and in the modern days that we want to go with, right? Yep. It's right there in the footnote.

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