Psalm 83:18 in the King James Version reads: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."
It's one of only four verses where the King James Version prints God's name instead of LORD.
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalm 83:18, King James Version
The setting
Psalm 83 is titled "A Song or Psalm of Asaph." It's a prayer for God to act against a group of nations that had joined together against Israel. Verses 6 to 8 name them, including Edom, Moab, Ammon, Amalek, the Philistines and Assyria. The psalm asks God to scatter them, and the last verse gives the reason: so that people would know who he is, and know him by his name.
Why the name matters in this verse
The verse is about the name itself, "whose name alone is JEHOVAH," so a title like LORD would lose the point. That's likely why the King James translators kept the name here when they replaced it almost everywhere else. Many modern translations print "the LORD" even in this verse.
In the Divine Name King James Bible
This verse reads the same as the King James Version: "whose name alone is Jehovah." The difference is in the rest of the book, where the name is restored in the other 7,022 places as well. Read all of Psalm 83.
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