No Fashioner Like Our God in Midrash Shmuel on Hannah's Song

"And there is no Rock like our God" (I Samuel 2:2). Flesh and blood cannot fashion a form within a form, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashioned man within his mother's womb. Flesh and blood cannot fashion a form within water, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashioned a form within water, as it is said, "And God said: Let the waters swarm" (Genesis 1:20). Flesh and blood requires several pigments, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashioned man from a single pigment: this orb of the eye is black, and its surround is white, and the teeth are white, and their surround is red. Flesh and blood fashions a form, and its form outlasts him, but the Holy One, blessed be He, outlasts His form, "There is none holy like the Lord, for there is none besides You" (I Samuel 2:2) — read it "for none outlasts You." Flesh and blood fashions a form and puts plaster into his pigments, but the Holy One, blessed be He, is not so; rather, "and You are familiar with all my ways" (Psalms 139:3). Flesh and blood fashions a form, and it does not move from its place, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashioned man, and he walks from one end of the world to the other. Flesh and blood fashions a form, and it neither sees nor hears, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashioned man, and he sees and he hears. Flesh and blood fashions a form, and he cannot make it in darkness, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions a form in darkness, "When I was made in secret" (Psalms 139:15). Flesh and blood fashions a form, and he cannot make for it a back, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions a form and makes for it a back, "You have formed me behind and before" (Psalms 139:5). Flesh and blood fashions a form, and he cannot make for it innards, but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions a form and makes for it innards, "and all my innards, His holy name" (Psalms 103:1). Shmuel bar Abba in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: two things no sorcerer can make, nor can any painter make them, and both of them praise the Holy One, blessed be He, and these are they: the soul and the innards. This is what David said, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all my innards, His holy name" (Psalms 103:1). Flesh and blood fashions a form, and its form does not praise him, but the Holy One, blessed be He — His form praises Him, "Let every soul praise the Lord" (Psalms 150:6). Rabbi Krispa in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: flesh and blood, when he comes to fashion a form, begins from its head, or from its ears, or from one of all its limbs, until he completes it; but the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions all of man at once, as it is said, "For He is the Fashioner of all" (Jeremiah 10:16). Thus, "and there is no Rock like our God" — and there is no Fashioner like our God.