Choral scores conventions question

[Jacques Menu]

Hello folks,

I’ve created this score from a psalms book, both attached, with explicit, 
sometimes artificial, time signatures and rests for the time being.

What is the usual way to setup such a choral, in terms of compound time 
signatures, partials, measure 13 spanning over a line break, minimizing the 
number of rests such as measure 4, the display of rests at measure 8, and the 
like?

Thanks for your help!

JM

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