The Targum has shown the Messiah as warrior. Now it shows him as judge, and the portrait turns tender. "How beautiful are the eyes of the king Meshiha, as the pure wine! He cannot look upon what is unclean, nor on the shedding of the blood of the innocent" (Genesis 49:12).
This is the heart of the Jewish messianic vision. Power without purity is tyranny; purity without power is helplessness. The Meshiha of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan holds both. His eyes are described as wine-pure — a phrase suggesting the clarity of vision that comes only from a cleansed soul. He physically cannot tolerate what is unjust. His teeth are "purer than milk" — he eats nothing stolen, nothing torn, nothing taken from the weak.
And then the landscape flips. Because the king is righteous, the land yields in abundance. "His mountains are red with wine, and his hills white with corn, and with the cotes of flocks." Wine and grain, the staples of Temple offerings. Flocks, the sign of a peaceful countryside where no army has stripped the villages bare. Jewish tradition insists: the messianic age is not an apocalypse. It is a harvest. It is what happens when the one in charge will not look at innocent blood.