John Gill Commentary Psalms 83:18

"That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth." — Psalms 83:18 (ASV)

That men may know that you, whose name alone is Jehovah
Or, "that you, your name alone is Jehovah" ^F16 , a self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I AM, the immutable God; for this name is expressive of the being, eternity, and unchangeableness of God, who is, and was, and is to come, invariably the same, (Revelation 1:4) which is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son or Spirit, who are with the Father the one Jehovah, (Deuteronomy 6:4) , and to whom this name is given; see (Exodus 17:6) , compared with (1 Corinthians 10:9) (Isaiah 40:3) (Jeremiah 23:6) (Isaiah 6:8Isaiah 6:9) compared with (Acts 28:25Acts 28:26) , but to the exclusion of all nominal and fictitious deities, the gods of the Heathens; and the being and perfections of God are known by the judgments he executes, (Psalms 9:16) ,

are the most High over all the earth ;
or,

and that you are
^F17 , being the Maker and the Possessor of it, and the sovereign Lord of its inhabitants, doing in it what seems good in his sight; see (Genesis 14:22) (Daniel 4:35) , for the accents require two propositions in the text: the Heathens ^F18 give the title of most high to their supreme deity: the Targum is,

``over all the inhabitants of the earth.''

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: (Kmv hta yk) "quod nomen tuum", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus.
• F17: "Quod tu, inquam, sis altissimus", Michaelis.
• F18: Pansan. Boeotica sive, l. 9. p. 555.