Genesis 18:14 is the Torah's answer to every reader who has ever wondered whether God notices the small disbeliefs of the faithful. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan takes the Hebrew's ha-yippaleh — is anything too wonderful — and reshapes it into a blunt question: is it possible to hide anything from before the Lord?
Sarah has just laughed inside the tent, silently, about the promise that she would bear a child. The angel, outside, has heard her. More than that — the Shekhinah has heard her. Her small laugh was not small enough to escape heaven.
And yet the verse does not crush her. The angel does not open an indictment. He simply asks the rhetorical question — can anything be hidden from before the Lord? — and then repeats the original promise, almost word for word. At the gracious time I will return to thee, in the time when you shall be revived, and Sarah shall have a son.
The Maggid reads this as one of the most merciful lines in the Torah. God sees the laugh. God does not cancel the child. Sarah's doubt is seen and forgiven in the same breath (Genesis 18:14). The promise is restated not as a punishment but as a reassurance. Yes, I noticed your laugh. And yes, I am still going to show up with a son.
Pseudo-Jonathan closes this chapter of promises with a theology many faithful people need: God is not surprised by your quiet unbelief, and God is not canceled by it either. The gracious time is still coming. The son is still being promised. Hide what you like; you will still be met.