John Calvin Commentary Psalms 143:11

"Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name`s sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble." — Psalms 143:11 (ASV)

For your name’s sake, O Jehovah! and so forth. By this expression, he makes it still clearer that he looked for deliverance entirely from God’s free mercy. For, if he had brought forward anything of his own, the cause would not have been in God, and only in God.

God is said to help us for his own name’s sake when, although he discovers nothing in us to attract his favor, he is moved to intervene out of his mere goodness.

The term righteousness has a similar meaning; for God, as I have said elsewhere, has made the deliverance of his people a means of illustrating his righteousness.

At the same time, he repeats what he had said about the extraordinary extent of his afflictions: in seeking to be quickened or made alive, he declares himself to be lifeless, and that he must remain under the power of death, if God, who holds power over life, did not recover him by a kind of resurrection.