Sarah Wronged Herself and the Lord Visited Her With a Child

"And the Lord visited Sarah" (Genesis 21:1). Let our master teach us: What is verbal wronging (onaah)? Thus our Rabbis taught: It is forbidden for a person to wrong his fellow. He must not say to him, "How much is this object worth?" when he has no need to buy it. And if he was a penitent, let him not wrong him and say to him, "Remember your former deeds." And if he was the child of converts, let him not say to him, "Remember the deeds of your ancestors," for indeed the flesh of a pig is bitten between their teeth. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to them: It is enough for you to be equal to Me. As it were, when I created My world, I did not seek to wrong any creature, and I did not publicize to those who come into the world what was the tree from which the first man ate. Come and see: whoever wrongs his fellow is punished first. And Sarah wronged herself, and she received her reward. She said to Abraham, "Behold now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing" (Genesis 16:2). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to her: You have wronged yourself; by your life, with the very language in which you spoke, I will visit you. You said "restrained me." What is written above? "For the Lord had completely restrained every womb" (Genesis 20:18). The Holy One, blessed be He, said: Abraham prayed before Me on behalf of Abimelech the wicked, and I was filled with mercy upon him; behold, I visit Abraham together with him, as it is said, "And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants, and they bore" (Genesis 20:17). What is written after it? "And the Lord visited Sarah."