Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 35:7

"Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth." — Ezekiel 35:7 (ASV)

Him that passeth out.—The cutting off of the traveller is a striking feature in the doom of Edom, for her nomadic tribes had been the great carriers between India and the East and Egypt, and she had grown rich by this commerce. The fierceness of the few tribes now wandering over the land makes even the occasional visit of the curious traveller a matter of difficulty and danger.