 The anger of God is terrible news, and Amos is full of terrible news, if you are in power. If you are the judges, or the religious leaders, or the wealthy business owners, God sees you. But for the people Amos is not talking to, for people whose lives are already full of terrible news, the poor, the oppressed, those who are cheated and enslaved, those who can never get their heads above water in a system that keeps pushing them down, this is entirely different news. God sees you. God knows your trouble. God is not okay with it. Everything is going to change.